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Hon.  H.  M.  Yerrington 
Hon.  Evan  Williams 

v  Dr.  S.  L.  Lee 
Dr.  J.  W.  Fox 
Mr.  T.  R.  Hofer 

•   Mr.  Geo.  C.  Thaxter 
Mr.  Saml.  P.  Davis 
Mr.  J.  X  Jones 
Mr.  \V.  L.  Taylor 
Mr.  E.  J.  fj>arkinson 

/•Mr.  C.  A.-Witherill 
Mr.  Gilbert  Briggs 
Mr.  F.  W.  Day 
Mr'.:  H.  B.   Miilard 
Mr.  Thos.  Millard 
Mr.  Robt.  H.  Grimmon 
Mr.  W    M.  Wilford 
Mr.  Phillip  Krall 
Mr.  Chas.  T.  Cutts 
Mr.  Peter  H.  Gordon 
Mr.  Wm.  Anderson 
Mr.  Jno.  G.  Fox 
Mr.  E.  Aube 
Mr.  D.  C.  Simpson 
Mr.  Henry  Madison 
Mr.  Samuel  J.  Taylor 
Dr.  G.  E.  Sussdorff 
Mr.  James  Raycraft 


Mr  Jno.  B.  Vieria 

Mr.  E.  B.  Zabriskie 

Mr.  John  p.  Sweeney 

Mr.  \V.  C.  Noteware 

Mr.  Harry  E.  Martin 

Mr.  Chas.  A.  Hofer 

Messrs.  Bell,  Edwards  &  Co. 

Messrs.  Stein  Bros. 

Messrs.  Cagwin  &  Noteware 

Mrs    Dora  Williams 

Mrs.  Mabel  E.  Bliss 

Mrs.  Geo.  T.  Davis 

Mrs.  E.  S.  Cowan 

Mrs.  C.  H.  Davis 

Mrs.  Martha  Mackey 

M*rs.  Fred  Turner 

Mrs.  G.  E.  So'ssdorff 

Mrs.  W7.  C.  Watson 

Miss  Jennie  Hatfibleton 

Miss  Florence  Spurg< 

Miss  Jennie  Davis 

Mr.  A.  W.   Havens 

Mr.  Lamartine  Osborn 

Mr.  John  D.  Langhorn,  Jr. 

Mr  J.  J.  Evans 

Mr.  Frank  Ashton 

Mr.  James  Wheeland 

Mr.  W.  C.  Watson 


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President  and  Medical  Director, 
CARSON    CITY,  -         -         NEV. 


W.    C.    \VATSON, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer , 

Room  No.  5  (Third  Floor),  Mills  Building, 
SAN     RKA1SLCISCO,    CAL. 


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INSTITUTE  * 

OF    NEVADA. 


The  Keeley  Institute  at  Carson  City,  Nevada,  is  the  only 
authorized  branch  of  the  \vorld-r.enowned  Keeley  Institute  of 
Dwight,  Illinois,  in  this  State.  It  possesses  the  sole  and  exclusive 
right  to  administer  and  sell  the  -Double  Chloride  of  Gold  Reme- 
dies, discovered  and  .prepared  only  by  Dr.  Leslie  E.  Keeley,  for 
the  cure  of  the.lipuor,  opium  and  tobacco  habits,  and  neurasthenia. 
By-  means  of  these  remedies  and  this  system  more  than  two 
hundred  thousand  people  have  been  permanently  cured. 

It  will,  therefore.,  be  seen  that  no  others  in  this  State  can  give 
the  Keeley  cure,  and  we  call  attention  to  the  following  "  Note  of 
Warning,"  published  by  The  Leslie  E.  Keeley  Co.  of  Dwight ; 
that  the  public  may  be  on  its  guard,  and. not  be  deceived  by 
unscrupulous  and  irresponsible  persons  who  proclaim  that  they 
give  and  administer  the  Double  Chloride  of  Gold  Remedies  the 
same,  as  Dr.  Keeley 's: 

"THE    KEELEY  INSTITUTE." 
(Thirteen    Years  of  Established   Merit). 

NOTE  OF  WARNING. 
To  the  Public : 

As  a  matter  of  justice  to  ourselves  and  to  the  reputation  of 
Dr.  Leslie  E.  Keeley's  Double  Chloride  of  Gold  Remedies  for  the 
cure  of  the  liquor,  opium,  morphine  and  tobacco  diseases,  and 
neurasthenia,  we  warn  the  public  that  these  remedies  are  used  by 
no  institution -or  sanitarium  in  the  United  States,  except  those 
established  by  our  company  under  the  uniform  name  of  "THE 
KEELEY  INSTITUTE." 


All  others  claiming  to  use  Dr.  Keeley's  remedies  or  formula: 
are  frauds  and  impostors. 

The  Keeley  Institutes,  established  in  various  parts  of  the 
United  States,  now  number  one  hundred  and  ten,  with  five  in 
Europe,  where  the  Keeley  treatment  is  administered,  and  the 
Keeley  remedies  sold.  We,  however,  caution  all  to  examine  well 
and  know  that  they  are  dealing  with  GENUINE  REPRESENTATIVES, 
authorized  by  us,  before  taking  treatment  or  purchasing  remedies. 

The  misleading  establishments  use  the  name  of  "  Bi-Chloride 
of  Gold,"  or  similar  titles.  The  newspapers  often  fail  to  dis- 
criminate sufficiently  to  know  that  they  are  imitators.  This  is  a 
matter  of  public  welfare,  and  hence  this  warning. 

Respectfully  yours, 

THE  LESLIE  E.  KEELEY  Co. 
May  /,  /c?pj — D  wight  >  III. 


S*  L  L  *E,  Successor  to? 

DR.IflRHMBHHHFF,  who  conducts  the  treatment  at  this  insti- 
tute, has  successfully  treated  more  than  one  thousand  persons,  and 
is  a  man  of  large  and  varied  experience  in  his  profession. 

No  patient  is  accepted  for  treatment  for  a  less  period  than 
three  weeks.  In  the  liquor  disease,  this  period  is  often  sufficient, 
though  the  majority  need  four  weeks. 

In  the  opium  (or  morphine)  and  cocaine  diseases  four  weeks  is 
the  shortest  time.  A  longer  period  often  becomes  necessary, 
depending  upon  the  amount  and  length  of  time  the  drug  has 
been  used. 

The  worst  cases  of  the  tobacco  habit  can  usually  be  cured  in 
two  weeks  by  institute  treatment. 

The  time  required  for  the  cure  of  neurasthenia  (or  nerve 
exhaustion)  depends  upon  several  special  conditions,  which  cannot 
be  calculated  until  the  patient  has  been  under  treatment  for 
several  days. 

In  simple  cases,  however,  of  neurasthenia  and  the  tobacco 
habit  we  recommend  the  home  treatment. 

All  information  regarding  times  of  treatment  and  other  matters 
not  already  given  in  these  pages,  will  be  cheerfully  furnished  on 
application. 

Medical  examinations  at  institute  of  applicants  for  treatment, 
free  of  charge. 


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Carson   City. 


Carson  City,  the  capital  of  Nevada,  is  a  typical  mountain  town 
of  4000  inhabitants,  located  near  the  base  of  the  Sierra  Nevada 
mountains.  Its  climate  is  as  nearly  perfect  as  can  be  found  on 
the  American  continent.  From  February  to  December  the  max- 
imum and  minimum  indications  by  the  thermometer  are  60°  to 
85°.  Invigorating  breezes  from  the  snow-capped  mountains  in 
the  immediate  West  keep  the  atmosphere  pure  and  exhilarating. 
The  nights  are  always  sufficiently  cool  to  sleep  in  perfect  comfort 
under  bed-clothing  and  one  rises  in  the  morning  as  refreshed  and 
exuberant  in  spirit  as  the  birds  of  Spring-time.  Every  night  is  a 
peaceful,  restful  vacation.  The  town  has  a  copious  supply  of  the 
best  and  purest  water  in  the  world  which  is  piped  direct  from 
springs  high  in  the  mountains.  Its  streets  are  almost  level  and 
ornamented  with  beautiful  shade  trees  that  form  an  Alameda  in 
every  direction.  The  Capital  grounds  consist  of  four  acres,  form- 
ing a  park  of  rare  beauty. 

The  State  Library  contains  some  20,000  carefully  selected 
volumes,  and  all  of  the  newspapers  of  the  State  as  well  as  the 
principal  papers  of  California  and  periodicals  of  the  United  States 
are  kept  on  file.  Every  one  has  the  privileges  of  the  library. 

The  Federal  Building  is  an  imposing  new  brick  structure  of 
four  stories,  costing  $150,000,  and  contains  an  elegant  post  office, 
unsurpassed  in  either  architectural  design  or  completeness  of 
equipment  by  any  other  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Visitors  who  are  numismatically  inclined  can  gratify  their 
curiosity  by  visiting  the  thorughly  equipped  United  States  Mint. 

The  pre-historic  footprints,  which  have  attracted  the  general 
attention  of  scientists  and  excited  great  interest  at  the  World's 
Fair,  where  some  of  them  are  exhibited,  may  be  seen  and  ex- 
amined at  the  State  Prison,  a  mile  east  of  town.  They  are 
remarkably  distinct  and  are  found  under  stone  stratifications 
twenty  feet  in  thickness. 

Shaw's  Hot  Springs  are  situated  a  mile  north  of  town  and  are 
reached  by  free  carriages  running  every  hour.  These  springs 
possess  wonderful  curative  properties  and  are  considered  to  be 
amongst  the  most  valuable  in  the  world.  There  are  two  swim- 
ming baths,  each  thirty  by  sixty  feet  in  dimension  and  with  a 
graded  depth  of  from  four  and  a  half  to  six  feet.  All  kinds  of 
baths  may  be  had  and  any  degree  of  natural  heat  obtained.  The 
charges  are  very  reasonable  and  the  management  is  polite  and 
accommodating. 


The  flume  yards,  less  than  a  mile  south,  are  well  worth  visiting. 
They  constitute  the  terminus  of  water  transportation  and  the 
commencement  of  rail  service  for  the  wood,  lumber  and  timber 
supplies  of  the  Comstock  mines  as  well  as  those  of  Esmeralda  and 
the  southern  country.  Over  $40,000,000  worth  of  forest  products 
have  been  transported  through  these  flumes  and  yards  to  the 
Comstock  mines  alone. 

Many  other  attractions  are  to  be  found  in  the  immediate 
vicinity  which  space  forbids  describing  but  which  the  visitor  will 
find  to  be  of  interest  as  well  as  instructive. 

The  clear  mountain  air  will  be  found  an  excellent  tonic  in 
bracing  up  the  nervous  system  and  a  valuable  adjunct  in  assisting 
the  recovery  of  persons  under  treatment.  For  this  reason  Carson 
has  been  selected  and  we  believe  possesses  more  natural  advant- 
ages in  restoring  health  than  are  to  be  found  at  any  other  institute 
in  the  United  States. 


The  Class  Who  Take  The  Cure. 


Drunkards  Who  Fondly  Imagine  They  are  Keeping  It  to  Themselves. 


It  is  supposed  by  those  who  are  unacquainted  with  the  class  of 
people  taking  the  "Keeley  Cure,"  that  they  are  generally  persons 
of  low  character,  and  disreputable  habits,  in  addition  to  their 
drunkenness.  This  is  a  mistake. 

Investigation  will  prove  that  a  large  majority  are  persons  who 
possess  high  qualities  naturally,  both  of  the  mind  and  heart.  Take 
a  class  of  50  patients,  from  this  or  any  other  Keeley  Institute, 
and  compare  them  with  any  50  men  you  can  find  upon  the  best 
streets  of  any  city,  and  they  will  compare  favorably.  All  walks  of 
life  are  represented  here,  but  principally  those  who  are  educated 
and  intelligent  people. 

It  is  very  often  the  case,  with  those  who  contemplate  taking 
the  treatment,  that  they  hesitate  to  begin,  fearing  that  it  will  be 
generally  known  that  they  are  doing  so,  which  will  bring  discredit 
and  lower  them  in  the  estimation  of  their  friends  and  the  public. 
This  feeling  of  sensativeness  should  be  overcome — since  it  is  a 
false  one.  Intelligent,  thinking  people  now  understand  that 
drunkenness  is  a  disease,  and  as  such  should  be  treated  by  specific 
medication,  and  is  not  regarded  as  a  vice  to  be  overcome  by  will 
power  or  moral  suasion. 

It  is  a  remarkable  fact  that  drinking  men  believe  that  but  few, 
if  any  persons,  know  that  they  are  drunkards.  They  deceive 
themselves  in  this  particular,  and  think  they  deceive  others  also, 


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but  the  truth  is,  that  no  man  has  ever  been  able,  or  ever  will  be 
able,  to  conceal  this  fact  from  his  friends  or  even  acquaintances. 

It  is  certainly  more  manly  and  commendable  to  determine  to 
shake  off  the  shackles  of  drunkenness,  by  taking  a  cure  for  the 
disease,  than  to  continue  a  slave  to  its  degrading  influence.  A 
few  days  after  beginning  treatment,  the  change  for  the  better  in 
his  whole  condition,  physical,  mental  and  moral,  is  so  pronounced, 
that  his  appreciation  will  find  expression,  and  in  his  happiness  he 
will  want  everyone  to  know  of  it,  and  all  his  friends  to  take  the 
treatment.  Instead  of  lowering  him,  it  will  elevate  him  in  the 
esteem  of  those  whose  good  will  is  worth  having;  and  when  his 
cure  is  completed  and  he  returns  to  his  home,  he  will  find  the 
right  hand  of  fellowship  cordially  extended  him,  and  his  family 
and  friends  will  have  a  trust  in  him,  and  confidence  in  his  future, 
which  will  enable  him  speedily  to  regain  his  proper  place  in  soci- 
ety, and  compel  the  respect  and  esteem  of  his  fellow-men. 

The  question  is  sometimes  asked:  "Is  it  dangerous  to  take  the 
treatment?"  "Will  it  injure  the  functions  of  the  brain,  or  general 
health?" 

No,  it  is  not  dangerous  or  injurious.  A  child,  under  certain 
instructions  could  take  a  barrel  full  of  it  without  injurious  conse- 
quences. The  effect  of  the  treatment,  is  to  accomplish  a  complete 
renovation,  and  restore  the  functions  of  the  body  to  their  normal 
condition.  It  puts  a  man  back  to  the  same  condition  he  was  in 
before  he  ever  tasted  liquor;  and  in  many  instances,  in  a  better 
state  of  health. 

Before  accepting  a  patient  for  the  treatment,  a  careful  physical 
examination  is  made  to  see  if  any  conditions  are  present  contra- 
indicating  the  treatment;  such  as  fatty  degeneration  of  the  heart; 
advanced  state  of  consumption ;  advanced  Brights  disease,  etc. 
In  advanced  stages  of  such  diseases,  it  would  be  unwise  to  with- 
draw the  stimulant  necessary  to  prolong  life.  All  drinking  men 
have  some  irregular  action  of  the  heart.  This  is  due  to  alcoholic 
poisoning,  and  not  to  organic  diseases.  In  a  few  days  after  taking 
treatment  such  symptons  disappear  never  to  return.  As  before 
stated,  the  treatment  effects  a  complete  renovation. 

The  bloated,  expressionless  face;  bleary  bloodshot  eyes ;  languid, 
unsteady  walk  and  carriage  is  changed.  He  looks  indeed  as 
though  he  had  been  made  over  again.  His  eyes  are  bright  and 
clear;  his  face  has  the  appearance  of  health,  and  his  whole  de- 
meanor shows  the  happy  change  that  has  taken  place  not  only 
of  the  body  but  of  his  moral  nature  as  well. 

It  is  believed  by  many  that  if  a  man  drinks  liquor,  after  taking 
the  cure,  it  would  kill  him.  The  truth  of  the  matter  is  this. 
After  being  cured,  the  system  is  in  the  condition  it  was  before 


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alcohol  was  used.  A  man  would  have  to  accustom  his  system, 
gradually,  to  the  toleration  of  liquor,  and  again  the  disease  would 
have  to  be  established.  Now,  if  a  cured  man  should  begin  drink- 
ing at  once,  the  amount  of  liquor  he  had  been  using  just  before  he 
took  treatment,  his  system  would  not  tolerate  it,  and  it  would  act, 
in  all  probability,  as  an  active  poison  ;  just  as  the  same  quantity 
of  liquor  would  act  upon  a  person  who  had  never  taken  any  at  all. 
A  man  cannot  begin  drinking  the  same  amount,  after  being 
cured,  that  he  used  before,  without  danger.  There  never  need  be 
any  fear  that  alcoholic  stimulants,  given  medicinally,  in  sickness, 
etc.,  will  be  dangerous.  But  as  stated,  liquor  should  be  avoided 
under  all  circumstances,  if  possible,  for  the  reason  that  the  liquor 
disease  may  insidiously  become  established  again. 


A  Concise  Keeley  Catechism. 


So  many  articles  have  appeared  touching  the  Keeley  Cure, 
that  the  following  article  has  been  prepared  to  answer  the  numer- 
ous questions  that  arise,  and  upon  which  there  seems  to  be  still 
some  doubt  and  ignorance: 

Is  this  cure  approved  by  any  high  authority? 

Yes,  the  highest;  for  the  Keeley  Treatment  for  the  Liquor, 
Opium  and  Tobacco  Habits  has  received  the  endorsement  of  the 
United  States  Government,  and  will  now  be  used  in  all  its  State 
and  Military  Homes  for  Disabled  Volunteer  Soldiers  and  Sailors. 
This  recent  contract  ends  all  discussion  whether  the  cure  is  of 
practical  value.  It  is  to  be  used  by  the  Government  in  twenty-one 
States,  and  in  seven  National  Homes. 

Is  it  a  delusion,  or  mental  science,  or  faith- cure  or  hypnotism? 

It  is  a  positive  and  radical  medical  treatment.  It  consists  of  a 
hypodermic  injection  into  the  arm  four  times  a  day,  and  the  recep- 
tion into  the  stomach,  at  frequent  intervals,  of  a  tonic  especially 
prepared  for  the  purpose.  Warm  baths  and  nutritious  food  are 
insisted  upon.  There  is  no  more  secrecy  or  mystery  connected 
with  the  treatment  than  in  the  practice  of  any  regular  physician. 

The  injection  causes  about  as  much  pain  as  the  prick  of  a  needle. 
Sometimes  there  is  a  lack  of  appetite  following,  sometimes 
a  little  nausea,  and  generally  a  disposition  to  be  quiet,  with  good 
sleep  and  plenty  of  it. 

The  effects  of  the  treatment  are  generally  noticed  at  once.  The 
patient  desires  less  and  less  drink,  his  system  craves  and  will 
retain  nutritious  food,  and  in  two  or  three  days  liquors  placed  be- 
fore him  will  not  be  touched. 


In  most  cases  the  work  is  done  in  three  weeks.  After  the  first 
week  the  patient  is  a  new  man;  he  is  then  tonned  up  and  fitted  to 
resist  temptation. 

It  puts  him  back  where  he  was;  he  is  as  if  he  never  had  been  a 
drinker;  it  takes  away  the  love  of  drink.  Liquor  has  no  attraction. 
It  stands  in  the  same  relation  to  him  as  any  other  nauseous  drug. 
If  a  man  will  drink  he  must  begin  anew.  Very  few  will  do  this, 
knowing  what  they  have  been  through.  Statistics  kept  for  eight 
years  show  about  95  per  cent,  of  permanent  cures. 

As  a  rule,  a  man  will  not  be  faithful  with  himself  in  any  home 
treatment.  The  Keeley  Cure  is  more  than  to  take  medicine  into 
the  stomach.  Regularity  and  freedom  from  old  associations  are 
necessary.  The  patient  is  with  those  who,  like  himself,  are  bent 
upon  one  end;  the  patients  inspire  one  another.  There  is  a 
happy  and  cordial  enthusiasm  in  all,  over  a  friend's  recovery. 

Compared  with  the  happy  results  it  costs  very  little .  A  single 
debauch  costs  more  than  an  entire  cure.  Thirty-five  dollars  a 
week  is  the  charge ,  which  includes  treatment  and  medicines.  Board 
is  extra,  and  is  graded  to  the  wish  and  purse  of  the  patient. 

Names  are  never  mentioned.  The  whole  affair,  both  in  corres- 
pondence and  in  everything  connected  with  the  treatment,  is  a  mat- 
ter of  delicate  confidence.  Patients  are  protected  and  not  exposed. 

Let  the  patient  come  sober,  if  possible,  but  should  he  come 
suffering  from  a  debauch  he  will  at  once  be  attended  to  and  helped 
toward  a  speedy  cure. 

There  are  no  bolts  or  bars.  Kindly  care  is  always  given,  and 
he  will  be  protected  during  his  stay  till  he  goes  out  a  redeemed 
man. 


Alcoholism  and  Opiumism  are  Diseases. 


No  greater  change  of  thought  has  been  witnessed  in  modern 
times  than  in  relation  to  the  victims  of  narcotics.  Fifty  years  ago 
the  excessive  use  of  narcotics  was  almost  universally  regarded  as  a 
vice,  the  baneful  effects  of  which  ought  to  be  severely  punished  as 
a  crime.  Severity  of  punishment  was  thought  to  be  necessary  for 
the  reform  of  the  victims  and  for  the  vindication  of  the  rights  of 
the  community.  So  deeply  rooted  was  this  conviction  in  the  pub- 
lic mind  that  ministers  and  churches  had  nothing  but  unsparing 
denunciations  and  rigid  exclusions  to  deal  out  to  the  offenders. 
The  victims  of  alcohol  and  opium  were  regarded  as  the  scum  and 
offscouring  of  all  things,  fit  only  to  be  kicked  into  the  gutter,  or 
incarcerated  in  some  dreary  dungeon,  and  notwithstanding  the 
fact  that  medical  science  has  established  the  truth  that  alcoholism 


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and  opiumism  are  diseases,  which  must  be  dealt  with  as  such, 
and  yet  there  is  a  great  majority  of  Christian  people  who  have  given 
so  little  attention  to  the  scientific  facts  that  they  still  live  and  move, 
and  have  their  being  in  a  dream  of  ignorance ;  they  fondly  cherish 
the  old  delusion,  and  their  acts  are  in  harmony  with  their  cruel, 
vindictive  thoughts.  We  ask  the  candid  attention  of  our  readers 
to  what  are  now  the  undisputed  facts  of  science  in  relation  to  the 
victims  of  alcohol  and  opium.  The  fact  that  alcoholism  is  a 
disease  is  the  foundation  stone  upon  which  the  Keeley  Institute 
is  built.  Dr.  Leslie  Keeley  was  one  of  the  earliest  advocates  of 
this  fundamental  truth.  So  firmly  convinced  was  he  of  the  truth 
of  this  postulate  that  he  gave  more  than  twenty  years  of  his  val- 
uable life  in  investigations  and  researches  for  a  remedy  for  this 
fell  disease.  His  patience  and  devotion  were  at  last  crowned  with 
success  in  the  discovery  of  that  invaluable  specific,  the  Double 
Chloride  of  Gold,  which  bears  his  name.  To-day  the  truth  is  gen- 
erally recognized  by  leading  physicians  and  by  eminent  men,  that 
alcoholism  is  a  disease  which  needs  scientific  treatment,  but  30 
years  ago  such  an  idea  met  with  the  most  violent  antagonism, 
especially  from  ministers  of  the  Gospel,  because  it  seemed  to  be 
opposed  to  the  current  code  or  morality.  The  great  change  of 
opinion  is  doubtless,  in  great  measure,  due  to  the  intelligent  and 
persistent  advocacy  of  this  truth  by  Dr.  L.  E.  Keeley.  To  him, 
therefore,  belongs  the  honor  of  preparing  the  way  for  the  rational 
treatment  of  the  disease,  as  well  as  that  of  providing  an  infallible 
remedy.  The  world  is  doubly  indebted  to  this  great  discoverer, 
and  now  that  his  system  of  cure  has  been  in  operation  for  more 
than  fourteen  years,  and  a  great  army  of  more  than  200,000  per- 
sons have  been  cured  of  these  narcotic  diseases;  the  most  terrible 
that  afflict  humanity;  his  statements  are  most  certainly  entitled  to 
the  candid,  earnest  consideration  of  every  thoughtful,  intelligent 
and  Christian  mind. 


Dr.  Keeley  Tells  the  History  and  Effect  of  His  Remedy. 


In  addressing  the  Press  Club  Association,  of  Chicago,  Dr. 
Keeley  spoke  as  follows: 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen :  I  am  here  to-night  by  invitation  of 
the  Press  Club  of  Chicago  to  speak  of  my  remedy  for  the  liquor 
habit,  and  discuss  the  subject,  "Is  Drunkenness  a  Disease?" 
Unfortunately  for  you,  perhaps,  who  will  listen  to  me,  I  have  never 
had  occasion  to  address  an  audience  before,  in  consequence  of 
which,  if  I  fall  short  of  your  expectations,  I  crave  your  forbear- 
ance. 


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Thirty  years  ago  the  idea  first  occurred  to  me  that  inebriety 
was  a  disease  and  should  be  rationally  treated  as  other  diseases. 
You  know  that  insanity  within  our  own  day  has  advanced  in 
pathology  from  the  conception  of  demonical  possession  to  that  of 
bodily  disease.  The  remedy  for  insanity  was  formerly  the  court, 
the  jail,  and  even  punishment  by  death.  In  fact,  survivals  of 
these  methods  and  cures  and  treatments  of  the  insane  yet  exist 
to  some  extent,  though  the  law  and  moral  sentiment  are  begin- 
ning to  recognize  that  insane  people  are  not  morally  responsible. 

I  do  not  claim  that  society  is  yet  ready  to  accept  the  conclu- 
sion that  confirmed  inebriates  are  morally  irresponsible,  but 
society  is  now  obliged  to  accept  the  fact  that  confirmed  inebriety 
is  a  disease.  The  evidences  of  this  fact  comprise  all  the  evidence 
there  is  of  the  existence  of  any  disease.  There  is  poison  as  a 
cause.  There  are  symptons  and  signs  of  disease.  These  facts 
have  long  been  known,  but  there  is  now  the  additional  evidence 
which  is  confirmatory  that  the  disease  of  inebriety  is  curable  by 
medicine. 

The  moral  factor  of  inebriety  has  always  stood  in  the  way  of 
the  recognition  by  the  public  that  inebriety  is  a  disease.  The 
alcoholized  patient  or  culprit,  or  prisioner,  is  held  responsible 
morally  because  he  buys  the  poison  voluntarily,  and  takes  it  him- 
self, which  brings  into  the  case  the  factor  of  vice,  viewed  from 
the  standpoint  of  law  and  morality.  Setting  aside  this  factor 
there  is  no  difference  in  general  terms  between  drunkenness  or 
alcoholism  and  typhoid-fever  or  insanity,  and,  in  fact,  when  we 
continue  the  analysis  of  the  features  of  likeness  there  is  no  differ- 
ence. 

The  germ  diseases,  as  typhoid-fever,  consumption,  scarlet-fever 
and  diphtheria  are  caused  by  germ  poison,  and  it  was  formerly  the 
custom  to  call  these  diseases  "providential"  or  visitations  from 
God,  the  reason  being  that  the  cause  was  unknown.  Now,  how- 
ever, that  the  cause  is  known  we  learn  that  the  public  and  indi- 
viduals are  as  responsible  morally  for  the  existence  of  these 
poisons  as  they  are  for  the  existence  of  alcohol.  A  man  who 
refuses  to  be  vaccinated  or  refuses  this  protection  to  his  family  is 
responsible  if  smallpox  is  the  consequence.  Communities  which 
neglect  sanitation  and  have  a  death  rate  of  ten  or  twenty  above 
the  minimum  rate  per  1,000  are  responsible  for  the  consequent 
sickness  and  death,  An  individual  who  uses  water  that  he  knows 
or  should  know  may  be  contaminated  and  gets  typhoid-fever 
therefrom  is  morally  as  responsible  as  the  man  who  drinks  alcohol 
uutil  he  becomes  a  drunkard . 

From  these  facts,  then,  I  can  see  no  difference  in  a  general 
sense  between  the  diseases  of  inebriety  and  typhoid-fever  and  other 


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diseases.  They  are  all,  every  one,  caused  by  poisons  which  pro- 
duce the  disease,  and  individuals  and  communities  are  equally 
responsible  from  the  moral  standpoint  for  all  diseases  that  are 
preventable. 

Inebriety  also  bears  the  same  relation  to  cure  and  prevention 
that  other  diseases  do.  All  diseases  including  inebriety,  should 
be  prevented  rather  than  cured,  but  this  world  while  truly  seeking 
the  art  of  preventing  all  diseases,  has  not  yet  reached  the  goal. 
This  being  true,  it  follows  that  diseases  which  cannot  be  prevented 
must  be  cured,  if  possible.  The  evidences  of  modern  times  that 
are  now  in  the  hands  of  the  optimist  who  seeks  to  prove  that  the 
world  grows  better  are  the  facts  that  people  who  can  think  now 
treat  the  insane  and  the  inebriates  and  the  criminals,  not  so  much 
with  the  object  of  punishment  as  with  the  object  of  cure.  Lunatic 
asylums  are  now  hospitals.  Penitentaries  are  being  taken  away 
from  politicians  and  contractors,  and  converted  into  reformatory 
colleges.  As  yet,  however,  the  government  knows  but  little  about 
the  treatment  of  inebriates,  and  the  public  institutions  which 
receive  the  victims  of  alcoholic  poison  from  the  police  courts  are 
still  known  as  bridewells,  jails  and  penitentaries.  The  reforma- 
tion of  inebriates,  as  you  would  call  it  from  the  moral  standpoint, 
is  yet  in  the  hands  of  private  enterprise,  and  these  reformatories 
can  date  back  only  a  few  years. 


Alcoholism  as  a  Disease. 


Synopsis  of  an  Address  to  His  Patients  by  Dr.  Leslie  E.  Keeley. 

Joseph  Medill,  editor  of  the  Chicago  Tribune,  to  whom  is  largely 
due  the  credit  of  making  known  to  an  astonished  world  that  a 
cure  exists  for  inebriety,  gave  in  his  paper  about  a  year  ago  an 
address  of  Dr.  Leslie  E.  Keeley  on  the  pathology  of  alcoholism, 
which  occupied  four  columns.  In  an  editorial  summary  of  the 
address,  Mr.  Medill  termed  it  a  remarkable  paper,  and  it  is,  for  it 
traces  the  subject  in  a  technical  manner  through  all  its  phases.  In 
his  summary  Mr.  Medill  wrote: 

"The  most  radical  point  is  that  in  regard  to  the  heredity  of 
disease,  which  he  contends  protects  people  rather  than  destroys 
them,  because  it  builds  up  a  protection  against  disease  which  may 
amount  to  an  immunity,  and  this  is  true  of  the  hereditary  drinker, 
he  being  the  so-called  temperance  drinker.  "The  "Christian" 
American  or  European  inheiits  a  tolerance  to  the  poison  of  alco- 
hol from  "a  line  of  poison-pestered  ancestry,"  so  that  he  is  able 
to  consume  without  trouble  a  quantity  that  would  make  a  drunk- 


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ard  of  an  Indian  or  Hottentot  or  a  Hindoo.  Immunity  from  the 
action  of  poisons  is  only  given  by  the  action  of  poisons  them- 
selves. This  may  be  obtained  by  inocculation,  as  small-pox,  or 
by  long  use,  in  which  case  it  will  become  hereditary.  The  man 
who  can  inhale  sewer  gas  containing  tubercle  bacilli  and  escape 
consumption  is  the  one  whose  ancestors  had  so  long  been  poisoned 
by  the  phthisis  microbe  that  they  had  acquired  immunity  from 
its  attacks.  But  if  the  man  be  no  longer  exposed  to  the  infection, 
and  his  children  be  exempt  from  it,  their  descendants  will  in  time 
begin  to  suffer  from  the  disease.  It  is  precisely  so,  Dr.  Keeley 
claims,  with  alcohol  and  the  germs  of  consumption.  If  neither  of 
these  two  poisons  were  in  the  world  the  trouble  of  inebriety  might 
be  avoided  and  the  coercive  teetotal  advocate  might  find  his  long- 
wished  for  millennium.  But  the  fact  remains  that  if  prohibition 
ever  succeeds  it  will  be  after  the  banishment  of  the  infections  of 
disease  and  their  poisons  and  if  we  could  prohibit  disease  infec- 
tion the  question  of  alcohol  prohibition  would  take  care  of  itself. 

The  diagnosis  of  consumption  and  chronic  alcoholism  as  hered- 
itary diseases  is  declared  to  be  an  error,  though  sanctioned  by 
boards  of  health  and  life  insurance  companies.  They  do  not 
know,  or  ignore,  the  relation  of  a  poison  to  the  tissue  cells,  the 
latter  varying  by  use  to  "a  tolerance  of  the  poison."  It  is  this  var- 
iation which  in  either  case  is  transmitted  by  heredity,  and  it  fol- 
lows from  this  that  the  'inheritance  is  an  immunity  from  the 
poison  and  not  a  transmission  of  disease.'  This  action  is  upon 
the  nerve  cell,  not  because  of  any  special  selectiveness  as  sup- 
posed by  some,  but  simply  because  the  nerve  is  the  most  sensi- 
tive of  all  the  tissues  to  influence  from  without.  The  action  of 
alcohol  upon  it  is  to  prevent  its  nutrition,  reproduction  and  special 
function.  If  this  be  done  in  too  great  excess  the  cell  is  destroyed 
as  an  organism,  if  so  gently  that  it  may  be  borne  the  effect  is 
simply  perversive.  The  changed  organism  transmits  the  variation 
to  its  successors,  just  as  the  dental  system  of  the  animal  world 
would  change  if  for  a  long  time  there  were  no  grass  for  the  cow 
or  no  flesh  for  the  carnivora  to  feed  upon.  But  this  variation  does 
not  cause  inebriety  by  heredity,  though  it  may  be  difficult  to  say 
how  many  generations  are  required  to  gain  immunity  from 
alcohol. 

"The  same  is  true  of  the  ptomaines  of  consumption,  of  which 
only  one  person  in  seven  dies,  for  the  reason  that  all  the  rest  have 
acquired  an  immunity  from  its  poison.  Heredity  has  improved 
species  not  by  merely  transmitting  likeness,  but  by  giving  an  in- 
crement of  variation  with  each  succeeding  generation,  by  which 
the  race  becomes  better  able  to  live. 

"Atavism,  or   the  tendency  to   return  to  a  former  type,  is  an 


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important  element  of  reform  in  cases  of  abuse  of  an  organ  or 
function,  and  in  a  physiological  sense  this  largely  depends  upon 
the  rapidity  of  action  by  the  poison.  It  is  in  this  relation  to  the 
human  organism  that  alcohol  stands  out  as  far  less  dangerous  than 
morphine .  The  variation  of  cells  brought  on  by  the  use  of  the 
latter  is  so  slow  that  it  is  next  to  impossible  for  an  opium-eater  to 
control  his  appetite  for  morphia,  while  the  alcoholic  poison  acts  so 
rapidly  that  the  atavistic  recovery  of  the  cells  only  requires  a  few 
weeks'  time,  even  without  special  treatment  Chloroform  and  ether 
are  rapid  in  their  action,  and  thus  allow  speedy  recovery  from 
their  attacks.  On  the  other  hand  the  ptomaines  of  disease  (the 
poison  from  the  microbes)  act  slowly.  Two  or  more  weeks  are 
required  in  each  of  the  acute  diseases  to  establish  a  cell  variation 
sufficient  to  make  them  tolerate  the  poison,  and  the  cells  may  hold 
this  variation  for  many  years,  during  which  the  person  enjoys  immu- 
nity from  a  return  of  the  disease.  This  is  true  of  small-pox, 
typhus,  typhoid,  consumption,  diphtheria,  cholera,  and  the  yel- 
low and  other  fevers,  all  of  which  are  caused  by  poisons  manufact- 
ured by  microbes.  All  run  their  course  till  the  cells  have  become 
accustomed  to  their  influence.  Then  if  the  organism  has  been 
killed  off  it  recovers,  because  when  once  it  can  resist  the  poison  of 
a  given  disease  that  disease  must  come  to  an  end. 

''The  change  produced  in  the  nerve  tissues  by  alcohol  is  gener- 
ally but  an  isomeric  one;  that  is,  and  identity  of  element?  and  atomic 
proportions,  the  difference  being  only  in  the  quantity  combined 
in  the  molecule.  It  does  not  cause  a  degenerative  change  of 
tissue  nor  true  imflammation,  though  it  may  have  a  prepossessing 
influence  in  the  etiology  of  some  diseases.  Hence  there  is  nothing 
in  the  way  of  a  cure  of  alcoholism  by  following  the  course  of 
nature  in  bringing  around  the  atavism  of  the  cells  after  a  debauch 
This  can  best  be  done  by  gradual  reduction  of  the  supply,  a  sud- 
den cutting  off  being  not  only  cruel,  but  often  dangerous.  For 
both  that  and  the  opium  habit  it  may  be  said  that  when  a  man 
can  live  without  distress  for  a  week  in  the  absence  of  the  stimulus 
his  recovery  from  the  disease  is  assured." 

In  closing  his  paper  of  which  the  above  is  a  condensation,  Dr. 
Keeley  used  this  language: 

"The  scientific  and  humane  method  of  treating  an  inebriate,  no 
matter  what  the  poison,  is  to  gradually  reduce  the  'drug' and  bring 
about  the  atavism  of  the  cells  by  equal  methods.  In  alcoholic 
poisoning  this  can  be  done  in  a  comparatively  short  time  My 
emulsion  combines  food  principles  with  an  alcoholic  preparation 
which  supplies  the  needed  nerve  nourishment,  and  the  drug 
required  to  secure  atavism  of  the  nerve  cells  speedily  and  easily. 
After  one  night's  sleep  and  generally  not  over  two  doses  of  the 


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emulsion  the  patient  will  refuse  liquor  if  offered  him.  He  is  now 
ready  for  the  cure  and  the  remedy  is  at  once  administered  and 
continued  for  three  weeks,  when  the  patient  is  cured. 

"I  will  say  that  in  the  discovery  of  my  method  I  did  not  follow 
empirical  experiment  alone.  I  investigated  the  question  on  the 
lines  of  natural  selection  relating  to  pathology.  As  pathology 
(disease)  is  caused  by  poisons  I  learned  that  cells  acquire  an  im- 
munity from  poison  by  being  poisoned.  I  learned  this  immunity 
lasts  very  long  in  ptomaine  poisoning  but  is  short  in  other  poisons 
— mineral  poisons  and  poisons  like  alcohol.  I  finally  learned  that 
metals  used  as  drugs  (or  certain  metals),  will  obliterate  the  vesti- 
ges of  variation,  or  whatever  changes  there  may  be  in  nerve  cells, 
after  alcohol  and  other  poisons. 

"Continued  drinking  or  alcoholic  poisoning  makes  the  chronic 
drunkard.  A  cessation  of  drinking  and  recurrence  on  provocation 
and  at  periodical  intervals  makes  a  periodical  drunkard,  so  called. 
In  one  case  the  drunkard  never  recovers  from  the  poisoning.  His 
tolerance  to  alcohol  becomes  very  great  and  some  of  these  inebri- 
ates drink  surprising  quantities  of  alcohol.  I  find  these  patients 
as  easily  cured  as  the  periodical  drinkers. 

"  The  periodical  inebriate  has  his  'spells'  (or  sprees)  and  always 
reforms  between  spells.  When  he  reforms  he  and  his  friends  de- 
clare he  will  never  take  another  drink.  He  learns  that  it  is  the 
first  drink  that  ruins  him,  and  his  friends  learn  it  also.  This  ine- 
briate signs  pledges,  joins  the  church,  goes  to  the  'home,'  takes 
medicine, 'turns  over  a  new  leaf,'  and  'swears  off.'  He  takes  ma- 
terial and  spiritual  nostrums  of  all  or  any  kinds  which  are  offered. 
He  prays  for  strength  and  guidance,  but  his  next  spree  comes 
around  on  time  or  a  little  earlier. 

"  Now,  we  know  that  no  phenomenon  ever  occurs  in  this  world, 
either  in  the  mental  or  physical  world,  that  is  not  the  resultant  of 
opposing  forces.  There  is  no  volition  except  from  two  thoughts 
or  impulses.  There  is  no  thought  that  is  not  founded  likewise. 
There  is  no  action  of  what  is  called  function  unless  there  are  two 
forces  behind  it.  There  is  no  disease  that  is  not  a  resultant  of  a 
poison  resisted  by  physiology. 

"  But  all  the  force  has  rythm.  Thought  is  rythmical.  The 
mind  obeys  the  same  law.  If  a  man  has  a  habit  sometimes  the 
man  conquers,  but  sometimes  the  habit  has  the  pole.  When  a 
periodical  drunkard  poisons  his  nerve  centers  he  soon  drowns  out 
feeling,  conscience,  sensation,  emotion,  will  and  thought.  The 
cells  are  staggered  and  paralyzed.  The  more  violent  the  onslaught 
the  more  violent  the  resistance  and  the  greater  the  reaction  and 
also  the  greater  the  variation.  In  a  few  days  the  inebriate's 
stomach  will  not  bear  food.  He  gives  out  generally,  and  as  his 


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alcohol  fails  to  intoxicate  and  his  stomach  fails  to  retain  the  drug, 
he  begins  to  think,  and  remorse  gets  the  start,  and  after  a  spell  of 
agony,  more  or  less  severe,  the  next  reformation  follows. 

"  The  moral  conduct  and  life  of  this  man  are  now  the  index  of 
his  will  resisted  by  his  diseased  nerve  cells.  After  a  debauch  his 
will  is  stronger.  In  time  he  loses  his  resistance  by  some  machin- 
ation or  influence,  and  the  debauch  is  repeated.  This  class  of 
cases  is  as  easily  curable  as  the  other.  The  cure  restores  the  in- 
tegrity of  the  nerve  cells.  There  is  no  longer  the  periodical  de- 
bauch, the  rythm  is  broken  up." 

The  Chicago  Tribune,  ever  faithful  to  the  Keeley  cure  after  its 
thorough  iuvestigations  and  tests,  of  March  26,  1892,  has  this  to 
say: 

"  During  the  year  and  one-half  since  the  Tribune  first  called 
attention  to  Dr.  Leslie  E.  Keeley's  method  of  curing  the  disease 
of  inebriety,  a  remarkable  change  has  taken  place  in  public  opin- 
ion on  this  subject.  Many  thousands  of  men  have  been  cured, 
and  while  some  have  returned  to  the  gutter  the  great  majority 
have  become  living  evidences  of  the  truth  of  Dr.  Keeley's  disease 
theory,  and  have  fully  justified  the  Tribune  in  giving  up  so  much 
space  to  this  effort  for  practical  temperance.  The  movement  has 
undoubtedly  resulted  in  the  large  pecuniary  success  of  Dr.  Keeley 
and  his  associates,  but  with  this  the  public  has  very  little  to  do. 
When  Dr.  Keeley's  theories  were  first  made  public  in  the  columns 
of  this  paper  they  were  subjected  to  bitter  criticism  on  the  part 
of  the  great  majority  of  the  medical  profession.  Recent  letters 
furnished  to  the  Tribune  show  that  now  the  leading  membes  of 
the  profession  are  becoming  converts  to  the  disease  theory  of  in- 
ebriety." 

The  Tribune  then  gives  letters  from  Dr.  J.  K.  Bauduy,  LL.D., 
professor  of  psychological  medicines  and  diseases  of  the  nervous 
system,  of  the  University  of  Missouri  ;  Dr.  S.  K.  Crawford,  late 
professor  of  surgical  anatomy  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  Chicago;  Dr.  Oscar  C.  De  Wolf,  Commissioner  of 
Health,  Chicago,  and  member  of  the  British  association  for  the 
advancement  of  science,  and  Dr.  Romine  S.  Curtiss,  surgeon  of 
the  Illinois  Steel  Company  and  surgeon  in  charge  of  St.  Joseph's 
Hospital,  Joliet,  Illinois.  Each  is  an  unqualified  endorsement, 
based  on  many  years'  acquaintance  with  Dr.  Keeley,  and  his 
specialties,  and  by  men  who  have  no  interest  in  him  or  his  treat- 
ment. 

The  valuable  testimonies  of  these  distinguished  physicians  can 
be  had,  printed  lin  eltenso'  in  separate  pamphlet  on  application  at 
the  Keeley  Institute,  Carson  City,  Nev. — Keeley  Current  Literature. 


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G.  E,  Sussdorff,  M.  D. 


Physician-in-Chief  at  the  Institute,  late  of  Los  Gatos,  but  no\v 
of  Carson  City,  Nevada,  in  a  very  valuable  lecture  given  to  the 
Bi-Chloride  of  Gold  Club,  Los  Gatos,  March  3,  1892,  gives  the 
following  lucid  explanation  of  the  fact  that  Alcoholism  is  a  Dis- 
ease : 
Members  of  the  Bi-Chloride  of  Gold  Club  of  Los  Gatos,  Ladies 

and  Gentlemen  : 

In  response  to  your  invitation  to  address  you  to-night  I  have 
selected  a  subject  which  I  know  is  of  paramount  importance  to 
you  personally  and  of  the  deepest  interest  to  the  public  at  large. 
I  mean  the  Keeley  Bi-Chloride  of  Gold  treatment  for  the  cure  of 
drunkenness. 

y;  is  a  work  which  I  have  entered  into  with  enthusiasm  and  one 
which  affords  me  not  only  a  delightful  study,  but  unbounded  sat- 
isfaction. 

I  will  confine  myself  to-night  to  a  consideration  of  one  part  of 
the  subject  only — alcoholism,  or  the  disease  of  drunkenness,  its 
treatment  and  cure — leaving  that  of  the  opium  and  kindred  affec- 
tions for  another  occasion. 

What  is  alcoholism,  or  drunkenness  ?  Is  it  a  disease  or  is  it  a 
vice  ? 

There  can  be  no  greater  authority  upon  this  point  than  Dr. 
Keeley  himself,  who  says  : 

''Alcoholism,  viewed  from  a  physiological  side,  is  a  disease — 
viewed  from  its  social  side  it  is  generally  esteemed  a  vice.  In- 
sanity was  once  believed  to  be  a  vice.  Those  unfortunate  crea- 
tures afflicted  with  insanity  were  supposed  to  be  possessed  of  a 
demon  and  were  thus  punished  by  divine  vengeance,  when  they 
were  simply  suffering  from  a  disease  whose  seat  was  in  the  brain, 
the  centre  of  the  nervous  system." 

Students  of  the  physiology  and  pathology  of  the  brain  and 
nervous  system  have  demonstrated  scientifically  to  the  world  that 
insanity  is  a  result  of  a  diseased  condition  of  the  brain,  that  it  is 
itself  a  disease.  In  the  same  way  and  by  a  like  process  of  study, 
alcoholism  has  been  demonstrated  to  be  a  disease  situated  in  the 
brain  and  nervous  system  generally. 

Post  mortem  examinations  do  not  reveal  the  conditions  of  in- 
herited insanity  in  the  brain,  neither  can  those  of  inherited  ^alco- 
holism be  demonstrated,  but  when  drunkenness  is  once  established 
the  diseased  conditions  are  always  the  same  and  are  easily  recog- 
nized. 

It  is  as  much  a  disease  as  typhoid  fever,  small-pox,  paralysis  or 
insanity. 


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I  will  not  touch  upon  the  subject  of  inherited  alcoholic  disease. 
Its  consideration  is  too  complex  to  be  made  intelligible  in  the 
limits  of  the  short  time  at  my  disposal.  It  would  require  hours 
for  its  elucidation.  I  will,  therefore,  speak  only  of  acquired  alco- 
holism, or  that  form  of  drunkenness  which  is  established  primarily 
by  the  poisonous  use  of  spirituous  liquors. 

The  acquired  or  developed  disease  is  readily  recognized  by  the 
presence  in  the  tissues  of  the  brain  of  certain  pathological  condi- 
tions which  are  as  distinctive  as  the  pathology  of  any  other  dis- 
ease. The  grey  matter  of  the  brain  and  its  covering,  the  men- 
inges  are  congested,  that  is,  too  full  of  blood.  There  is  in  the 
ventricles  and  arachnoidal  cavity  an  effusion  of  serum.  In  cases 
of  long  standing  the  congestion  has  become  chronic  inflammation 
with  thickening  of  the  meninges,  engorgement  of  blood-vessels 
and  abnormal  products,  such  as  serum,  sero-pus  and  even  pu§  it- 
self. The  spinal  cord  is  also  affected,  more  or  less,  in  the  same 
manner.  The  nerve  filaments  radiating  from  the  brain  and  spinal 
cord  are  also  diseased,  while  the  sympathetic  or  ganglion ic  nerve 
centers  come  in  for  their  share  of  injury. 

How  does  liquor  or  alcohol  bring  about  this  pathognomic  change 
in  the  tissues  and  establish  a  disease  ?  This  process  has  been 
carefully  studied,  but  it  must  suffice  at  this  time  only  to  roughly 
outline  it.  The  word  alcohol  is  used  instead  of  the  words  whisky 
and  liquor,  because  alcohol  is  the  agent  present  in  all  the  fluids 
used  for  stimulants.  The  properties  of  alcohol  are  to  produce  heat 
in  the  human  body.  It  is,  in  certain  amounts,  consumed  by  vital 
processes  and  converted  into  heat.  In  this  way  it  gives  warmth 
to  the  body  by  causing  quick  changes  in  the  various  tissues  of  the 
body.  In  certain  limited  amounts  alcohol  is  consumed  readily 
and  with  benefit.  A  few  ounces  only,  however,  answer  this  pur- 
pose. In  larger  amounts  alcohol  enters  the  circulation  unchanged. 
It  is  too  great  in  amount  and  cannot  be  burnt  up.  It  circulates 
in  the  blood  as  pure  unchanged  alcohol,  and  is  deposited  in  and 
upon  all  the  various  tissues  composing  the  animal  economy.  In 
time  the  whole  system  becomes  literally  saturated  with  it  and  dis- 
ease is  then  established  in  its  most  horrible  form. 

How  does  the  presence  of  alcohol  in  the  tissues  cause  disease  ? 

In  this  way — It  has  a  preference  for  nerve  tissue,  acting  upon 
it  more  energetically  than  others.  An  isomeric  change  takes 
place  and  coagulation  or  hardening  of  this  structure  ensues. 

When  this  has  occurred  the  function  of  the  nervous  system  is 
impaired  and  vitiated  in  direct  ratio  to  the  injury  received. 

That  alcohol  has  the  power  to  coagulate  albumen  can  easily  be 
illustrated  in  a  simple  way  by  any  one  who  chooses  to  try  the  ex- 
periment. 


Take  the  white  of  an  egg,  which  is  pure  albumen,  and  put  it 
into  a  vessel  containing  eight  or  ten  ounces  of  alcohol.  A  change 
will  soon  take  place  in  the  white  of  the  egg,  like  that  which  oc- 
curs when  heat  is  applied,  as  in  boiling  water,  or  applied  other- 
wise in  cooking.  It  is  simply  hardened,  or  in  other  words  coag- 
ulated. It  has  gone  through  what  is  called  an  isomeric  change. 

A  large  proportion  of  brain  matter  and  of  other  nerve  tissue  is 
albumenous. 

It  will,  therefore,  readily  be  seen  how  alcohol  in  its  pure  state 
acts  upon  the  nerves  and  changes  their  structure  by  a  process  of 
hardening. 

When  this  has  occurred,  these  parts  are  so  changed  anatomic- 
ally and  physiologically,  that  their  function  is  greatly  impaired  and 
perverted.  So  much  so  is  the  case  that  now  the  system  requires 
a  constant  supply  of  alcohol  as  a  stimulant,  which  has  become 
necessary  to  urge  the  vital  forces  to  go  on  with  their  work.  It  has 
become  a  necessity,  and  the  economy  imperiously  demands  the 
daily  supply  and  in  increasing  quantity. 

The  system  has  now  become  absolutely  dependent  for  support 
upon  the  stimulant. 

The  fire  is  burning  furiously  and  fuel  must  be  added  to  the 
flames. 

This  is  indeed  a  most  unnatural  state,  a  most  abnormal  condi- 
tion— a  terrible  disease. 

This  diseased  state  is  the  ultimate  result  in  all  who  use  this 
stimulant  in  poisonous  quantities.  . 

There  are  two  kinds  of  drunkards — one  who  drinks  daily  and 
one  who  drinks  periodically.  Both  are  traveling  the  same  road 
from  the  first,  but  under  different  circumstances.  The  one  goes 
along  at  a  regular  pace,  the  other  travels  by  short,  but  very  quick 
stages,  with  an  interval  to  take  rest.  Soon,  however,  he  finds  his 
periods  of  rest  grow  shorter,  and  before  long  there  are  no  inter- 
vals at  all,  but  he  is  furiously  speeding  along  and  must  soon  reach 
the  end. 

The  class  who  have  periodical  fits  of  drinking  are  the  more  dif- 
ficult to  treat  than  at  first  thought  would  seem  likely. 

In  this  class  there, is  generally  found  an  antecedent  history  of 
hereditary  disease,  which  taint  breaks  forth  in  explosions  at  inter- 
vals. It  is  closely  allied  to  insanity.  There  is  a  sort  of  rythm  in 
their  periodicity.  If  the  period  of  their  return  could  be  calculated 
with  certainty,  it  would  not  be  hard  to  avert  them,  still,  while 
there  is  some  difficulty  and  more  watchfulness  required,  this  class, 
like  the  class  of  steady  and  continuous  drinkers,  can  have  the  dis- 
ease eradicated.  In  other  words,  no  matter  how  this  condition  is 


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induced  in  the  beginning,  whether  by  social  influences  or  by  in- 
herited tendency,  the  result  is  the  same  in  all  particulars. 

In  this  pathological  state  of  the  nervous  system,  its  function  is 
so  much  perverted  that  only  false  sensations  are  received  and 
transmitted  by  the  brain. 

The  intelligence  and  reason,  as  well  as  the  emotions,  are  unbal- 
anced and  perturbed,  giving  rise  to  erroneous  and  illogical  ideas, 
disordered  actions,  and  to  that  general  mental  condition,  which 
renders  a  man  unfit  to  discharge  his  duties  to  his  God,  his  neigh- 
bor and  himself.  The  drunkard,  consequently,  is  not  a  responsi- 
ble being,  either  to  society  or  himself.  He  is  a  sick  man,  morally 
and  physically.  He  is  unable  to  keep  himself  in  proper  relation- 
ship to  his  environments. 

This  being  a  fact — all  this  being  plainly  true — how  shall  this 
evil  be  met  ?  How  can  it  be  overcome  ?  Shall  it  continue  to  be 
regarded  as  a  social  vice,  or  acknowledged  to  be  a  terrible  disease 
to  be  treated  by  the  physician  as  other  diseases  are  ?  Yes,  that 
is  the  better  and  only  way.  "  It  is  just  as  rational,"  says  Dr. 
Keeley,  "  from  a  medical  standpoint  to  treat  drunkenness  by  ex- 
postulation, pledge-signing,  reproaches  and  legislation,  as  it  for- 
merly was  to  treat  insanity  by  incantations,  the  exhibition  of 
saint's  bones,  or  the  laying  on  of  the  hands." 

The  tears,  the  agony,  the  starvation  and  social  misery  of  the 
drunkard's  family  ;  the  insanity,  mental  imbecility  and  criminality 
of  his  progeny — the  overflowing  penetentiaries,  jails  and  poor- 
houses,  and  the  millions  of  unmarked  and  unhonored  drunkard's 
graves,  are  powerless  now,  and  always  have  been  powerless,  to 
cure  this  disease  of  drunkenness." 

This  cause  and  effect  of  drunkeness  being  established,  what  is 
the  remedy  for  this  terrible  evil  ? 

The  world  has  been  asking  this  question  for  hundreds  of  years' 
It  has  been  the  subject  of  study  of  philosophers,  statesmen, 
churchmen,  physicians  and  scientists  the  world  over. 

For  the  last  few  decades  this  evil  has  seemed  to  gain  new 
strength,  it  has  been  growing  more  rapidly,  until  now  its  victims 
are  so  numerous  that  it  is  appalling  to  contemplate.  The  past 
twenty  years  have  been  noted  for  self  indulgence  of  every  kind, 
Every  means  has  been  sought  that  would  pander  to  the  senses. 

Pleasure,  or  the  inordinate  gratification  of  the  senses  has  been 
to  the  unthinking  multitude  the  only  thing  desirable  in  life. 
What  wonder  then  that  intoxicating  poisons  should  be  largely  re- 
sorted to  in  order  to  obtain  this  end.  The  time  is  coming  soon 
when  a  halt  will  be  called,  and  society  will  change  from  its  frivol- 
ity to  a  more  sensible  and  rational  mode  of  living.  The  influences 
for  for  better  ways  of  living  are  already  being  felt.  Among  these 


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influences  a  wonderful  and  marvelous  means  has  come  for  destroy- 
ing one  of  the  greatest  of  these  evils. 

The  close  of  the  nineteenth  century  is  marked  by  a  great  dis- 
covery, and  the  hand  of  Almighty  God  should  be  recognized  in 
this. 

For  twenty-five  years  a  man,  a  physician,  in  a  small  Illinois 
town,  toiled  patiently  and  searched  unremittingly  for  a  remedy  for 
the  curse  of  drunkenness.  At  last  his  efforts  were  crowned  with 
success,  and  an  absolute  potent  and  infailible  cure  has  been  given 
to  the  world  in  the  remedy  which  bears  his  name,  "  The  Leslie  E. 
Keeley  Bi-Chloride  of  Gold  Remedy." 

This  remedy  is  specific  in  its  effects. 

It  acts  immediately  as  an  alterative  and  resolvent  upon  the 
brain,  spinal  chord  and  sympathetic  nerve  centers,  and  as  if  by 
magic.  Selecting  these  tissues  by  some  inherent  power  as  afield 
for  its  operations,  it  shows  itself  to  be  the  natural  antidote  for  al- 
coholic poison. 

When  given  by  the  stomach  it  is  absorbed  rapidly — it  is  ab- 
sorbed instantly  by  the  capillaries  of  the  skin,  when  given  hypo- 
dermically,  and  is  carried  into  the  general  circulation.  Each  blood 
corpuscle  cheerfully  freights  itself  with  the  golden  treasure,  and 
deposits  it  upon  and  around  the  hardened  tissues  of  the  nerves. 
Then  it  causes  absorption,  sucks  up  the  diseased  tissues,  and  again 
carries  it  around  to  those  organs  whose  functions  it  is  to  eliminate 
and  throw  it  off  from  the  system  as  waste  and  worthless  ma- 
terial. 

While  it  is  so  actively,  so  industriously  effecting  the  work,  it 
causes  no  shock  to  the  system,  no  pain,  no  distress.  It  carries 
with  it  rather  a  soothing  influence,  and  soon  changes  feeling  and 
sensati-n  to  one  of  contentment  and  peace. 

To  me  this  is  a  most  wonderful  thing  in  medicine,  that  there 
should  be  found  an  agent  so  powerful  for  good  and  yet  so  gentle 
and  harmless  in  its  operation.  The  therapeutics  of  this  remedy 
are  founded  upon  some  sublime  law  of  nature,  perhaps  not  now 
understood,  but  fully  appreciated. 

Somewhere  I  have  read  these  words,  "  The  laws  which  have 
their  foundations  laid  deep  in  the  Eternal  Verities  are  not 
shackles,  but  supports,  to  keep  our  feeble  humanity  from  falling 
again  into  Chaos."  Truly  it  does  seem  that  the  law  of  the 
Eternal  Verities  has  been  obeyed,  and  that  our  feeble  humanity 
has  now  a  means  of  rescue  from  the  Chaotic  condition  of  drunk- 
enness. 

Is  all  this  merely  a  delusion  ?     Can  it  be  true  ? 

It  is  no  delusion.  It  is  all  true,  marvelously  true.  In  evidence 
of  its  truth  thousands  of  men  testify,  not  only  by  their  words  but 


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by  their  lives.     Daily   and  hourly  the  throng  of  rescued  men   is 
increasing. 

This  means  of  treatment  will  go  on  in  its  conquering  career  un- 
til every  man  sick  with  the  disease  is  reached  and  cured  of  his' 
sickness. 

What  are  the  after  effects  of  the  treatment? 

All  the  accumulated  evidence  goes  to  show  that  it  effects  a  com- 
plete renovation,  a  great  physical,  mental  and  moral  change, 

The  psycological  elements  are  in  a  healthy  condition.  The  in- 
telligence and  emotions  are  again  normal. 

The  disease  of  alcoholism  causes  a  man  to  have  a  distorted 
view  of  everything.  There  is  an  irritable,  restless,  unpleasant 
way  about  him  which  is  felt  by  every  one  but  is  difficult  to  de- 
scribe. The  common  expression,  "  a  complete  wreck,"  tells  the 
story  of  his  mental,  moral  and  physical  condition. 

After  being  cured  how  changed  is  all  this.  They  look  as  though 
they  had  "  been  made  over  again."  The  careworn  look  is  gone 
and  they  again  become  in  manner  pleasant,  agreeable  gentlemen. 
The  after  effect  of  the  treatment  is  to  make  men  of  them  again, 
just  as  God  intended  them  to  be.  After  treatment,  health,  en- 
ergy, courage  and  self-respect  return.  The  affections  bloom  like 
a  rose.  He  sheds  the  sunshine  of  love  and  happiness  about  him 
as  he  goes  about  his  daily  walks  of  life,  and  his  family  and  friends 
have  a  trust  in  him  they  never  had  before  he  was  cured.  'The 
old  order  changeth,  giving  place  to  new.' 

"  All  over  the  Eastern  part  of  our  great  country,  in  the  com- 
mercial centers  of  this  republic,  our  graduates  are  more  trusted 
by  business  men  than  are  the  men  who  have  never  drank  liquor 
at  all,  confidence  is  so  great  in  the  permanency  of  their  cure ." 


The  Rationale  of  the  Keeley  System. 


The  Physiological  and  philosophical  principles  upon  which  the 
Keeley  system  is  based  can  be  best  stated  in  Dr.  Keeley 's  own 
words. 

"  Accepting  the  invitation  of  Dr.  Talmage,  given  when  that 
eminent  divine  visited  Dwight  in  April,  Dr.  Leslie  E.  Keeley  ad- 
dressed an  audience  of  12,000  people  at  the  Tabernacle,  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  on  Sunday  evening,  May  15.  Dr.  Keeley  was  en 
route  to  Europe,  whence  he  journeyed  to  open  Keeley  institutes 
in  Great  Britain.  The  speech  he  made  in  Brooklyn  was  a  plain, 
everyday  talk,  explanatory  of  the  causes  of  inebriety  and  why 
alcohol  is  a  necessity  to  the  inebriate  after  he  has  become  such. 
We  have  only  space  here  to  give  the  eminent  physician's  expla- 


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nation  of  how  a  cure  is  obtainable.     The  Doctor's  language  was 
as  follows  : 

"  In  this  condition  I  have  explained  why  alcohol  is  a  necessity 
•  to  the  inebriate,  but  I  wish  to  speak  on  and  give  a  reason  for  the 
fact  that  drunkenness  is  periodical  or  rythmetical.  It  is  so  that 
in  many  inebriates  the  rhythm  is  so  short  that  the  intoxication  ap- 
pears to  be  continuous,  but  the  regular  rhythm  is  there  the  same 
as  in  the  periodical  drunkard,  The  constant  drunkard  is  partially 
sober  in  the  morning,  as  a  rule,  up  to  the  ninth  hour  of  the  day. 
The  topers  who  drink  constantly  are  usually  sober  until  late  in 
the  afternoon  of  each  day,  or  until  a  late  hour  in  the  evening. 
These  men  may  drink  during  the  forenoon  of  reform,  but,  as  the 
day  goes  on,  the  system  demands  the  poison,  and  by  night  the 
poor  wretch  is  as  full  as  the  round  moon  with  its  fabled  resem- 
blance to  the  man  who  comes  home  to  meet  his  family.  But  I 
think  the  larger  number  of  drunkards  are  the  so-called  'periodi- 
cals,' who  have  an  interval  of  total  abstinence  from  a  few  days  to 
even  a  year  or  more.  These  men  always  reform  after  a  debauch 
— a  debauch  which,  despite  their  good  resolutions,  is  sure  to  be 
repeated  sooner  or  later.  Viewed  from  a  social  standpoint,  the 
reason  for  the  lapse  of  good  resolutions  and  the  drunken  spree 
that  follows  is  not  always  the  same.  Different  causes  seem  to  lead 
to  the  debauch.  Generally  when  the  time  comes  the  debauch 
begins  by  social  drinking  ;  sometimes  some  real  or  fancied  illness 
is  the  excuse.  These  men  are  told  repeatedly  by  their  friends 
that  they  cannot  take  a  drink  without  following  it  up  until  para- 
lyzed ;  but  this  is  a  difficult  matter  for  the  toper  to  believe.  'Why 
can't  I  take  a  drink,'  he  will  say,  'as  well  as  Jones  or  Johnson?' 
Yes,  he  may  take  a  drink  once  or  twice,  determined  that  it  will 
be  his  last,  but  his  effort  is  sure  to  result  in  failure  and  to  end  in  a 
spree.  I  think  that  the  physiological  and  anatomical  basis  for  the 
extension  of  periodicity  in  drunkenness  is  easily  found  and  un- 
derstood. That  drunkenness  is  periodical  must  be  admitted.  The 
inebriates  and  their  friends,  as  well  as  their  enemies,  all  know  this 
fact.  If  they  have  a  rhythm  in  the  result,  or  in  the  phenomena 
of  the  world — whether  in  physiological,  mental  or  biological  ef- 
fects— the  naturul  influence  will  be  that  the  forces  which  underlie 
them  must  also  be  rythmetical.  I  have  said  that  all  things  and 
all  phenomena  are  the  products  of  opposing  forces  which  are  un- 
equal. If  all  election  forces  were  exactly  equal,  no  public  officer 
would  ever  be  elected.  If  gravity  and  the  attraction  of  the  moon 
were  equal  on  the  waters  of  the  ocean;  there  would  be  no  tides. 
If  the  sun's  heat  and  the  surface  tempeaature  of  the  earth  were 
equal,  there  would  be  no  rain.  If  the  volcanic  forces  in  the  earth 
and  the  resistence  of  its  crust  had  always  been  equal,  there  would 


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have  been  no  ranges  of  mountains.  If  the  poisons,  the  microbe 
and  the  resistance  of  the  tissue  cells  to  poison  were  equal,  there 
would  be  no  disease.  If  a  man's  physical  or  vital  resistence  to 
the  poison  of  alcohol  were  equal  to  the  alcohol,  the  stomach  would 
hold,  no  man  would  get  drunk.  He  could  not.  He  would  drink 

his  fill. 

* 

THE    OPPOSING    FORCES. 

All  physical  force  is  rhythmetical.  A  bar  of  light  is  rhythmeti- 
cal.  A  current  of  electricity  is  rhythmetical.  The  action  of  the 
magnet  also  shows  this  variability.  All  running  water  in  a  natu- 
ral or  artificial  stream  will  show  rhythm  in  its  speed  or  volumn. 
No  timepiece  or  electrical  apparatus  can  run  without  this  rhyth- 
metical action.  The  reason  is  that  all  motion  is  the  result  of 
forces  acting  in  opposition  to  each  other,  and  the  opposition  can- 
not always  be  an  equal  quantity.  But  having  an  understanding 
that  all  forces  are  rhythmetical,  and  that  all  things  are  the  products 
of  opposing  forces  acting  unequally,  let  us  look  at  the  disease  and 
see  if  the  law  holds  good.  You  know  that  epidemics  do  not  pre- 
vail continuously.  They  occur  periodically.  You  know  that  in  a 
fever  the  temperature  is  not  always  the  same.  If  typhoid,  the 
morning  temperature  is  102  degrees,  while  the  evening  tempera- 
ture may  be  105  degrees.  All  pain  is  naturally  rhythmetical.  If 
a  toothache  were  a  constant  quantity,  it  would  kill  its  victims . 
People  prevent  epidemics  by  fighting  their  rhythmetical  returns. 
They  combat  disease  by  remedies  which  break  up  the  secret 
rhythms  of  chills  or  fever.  The  chronic  inebriate  acquires  resist- 
ance to  alcohol  by  free  drinking.  His  family,  friends,  will,  and 
tissue  cells  resist  it.  All  these  make  such  an  impression  on  his 
mind  that  he  stops  drinking  for  a  while.  But  these  resisting  forces 
lose  their  power  in  time,  and  then  the  clamor  of  the  tissue  cells 
for  alcohol  is  again  predominant  and  he  goes  off  on  another  spree. 
From  this  standpoint  a  drunkard  is  made  up  of  rhythmetical  epi- 
demics, all  of  which  forces  are  driving  him  toward  drinking.  If 
all  of  these  forces  could  remain  equal  he  would  be  naturally  cured, 
but  unfortunately  they  remain  unequal.  My  remedy  breaks  up 
this  rhythm.  It  puts  the  inebriate  in  an  entirely  new  sphere,  ex- 
ternally and  internally.  It  is  very  like  and  about  as  effectual  as 
giving  a  man  who  has  the  ague  a  quantity  of  quinine  and  a  change 
of  climate.  It  breaks  up  the  regular  swing  of  the  pendulum 
which  ticks  against  sobriety  on  the  one  extreme  and  natural  de- 
bauchery on  the  other.  Society  naturally  looks  at  the  drunkard 
from  different  standpoints.  From  the  scientific  standpoint  society 
regards  liquor  as  a  poison.  The  larger  number  of  crimes  are  the 
work  of  men  who  are  under  the  influence  of  liquor.  The  drunkard 


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becomes  a  social  outcast  in  proportion  as  the  sentiment  against 
drinking  is  developed  in  the  public  mind.  The  inebriate  is  held 
to  be  morally  responsible  because  he  voluntarily  buys  the  poison 
and  takes  it  himself,  but  in  this  view  of  the  case  society  is  respon- 
sible for  all  the  crimes  that  the  drunkard  commits  and  for  the 
disease  of  inebriety.  Society  is  responsible  for  all  diseases  even 
including  insanity. 

All  diseases,  including  inebriety  and  insanity,  could  be  pre- 
vented. In  my  opinion  drunkenness  and  the  general  consumption 
of  alcohol  are  due  largely  to  imperfect  laws.  The  time  will  come, 
however,  when,  if  a  man  gets  typhoid  fever,  he  will  fix  the  respon- 
sibility somewhere,  and  will  sue  corporations  and  communities  for 
damages.  To-day  the  city  must  pay  damages  for  a  defective 
sidewalk  which  breaks  a  man's  leg,  but  the  city  may  inocculate  a 
third  of  its  population  with  typhoid-fever  through  a  water  supply 
which  is  contaminated  through  public  neglect,  and  no  claim  for 
damages  will  be  made.  Alcohol  is  an  instinctive  remedy  for  sick- 
ness. It  has  no  equal  among  drugs  as  a  heart  stimulant.  People 
will  have  it.  It  is  an  antidote  more  or  less  to  the  air,  water  or  germ 
poison.  Alcohol  will  not  need  to  be  prohibited  after  the  germ 
poisons  are  destroyed.  When  this  time  comes  the  people  will  stop 
drinking  alcohol.  It  will  go  out  of  fashion  soon  enough  and  will 
be  no  longer  sold  in  gilded  saloons  or  found  on  polished  side- 
boards. The  millineum  will  not  reach  this  world  until  humanity 
is  emancipated  from  poisons.  It  makes  no  difference  whether 
the  poison  is  that  of  a  disease,  microbe,  or  if  it  is  a  drug  which 
people  consider  a  use  as  a  remedy.  We  want  no  poisons  of  any 
kind  in  the  world.  If  the  disease  poisons  are  banished,  the  anti- 
dotes which  are  equally  poisonous  will  fall  of  themselves.  I 
believe  in  prevention  rather  than  cure,  if  prevention  can  head  off 
the  cure.  But  great  reforms  come  slowly.  The  public  considers 
alcohol  a  remedy. 

The  public  will  have  the  remedy.  When  typhoid,  consumption, 
malaria  and  kindred  diseases  are  banished  from  the  world,  the 
average  duration  of  human  life  will  be  longer  than  now  by  at  least 
twenty  years,  and  preventable  diseases  including  inebriety,  will 
not  then  be  known.  Therefore,  banish  all  poisons  that  bring  about 
preventable  disease  and  alcohol  will  die  out  of  itself.  The  question 
will  be  solved. — Keeley  Current  Literature,  June  1892. 

"How    Long    Does    It    Take?" 

BY    DOCTOR   J.  J.  MOONEY. 

"  The  time  necessary  to  accomplish  a  complete  and  thorough 
cure  of  the  alcoholic  disease  is  usually  from  three  to  four  weeks. 


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In  very  rare  instances  the  patient  remains  under  treatment  a  fifth 
week. 

The  question  is  frequently  asked,  "  If  Richard  Roe  can  be  cured 
in  three  weeks,  why  can  you  not  cure  John  Doe  in  the  same  length 
of  time?  He  (J.  D.)  did  not  drink  nearly  so  long  or  so  heavily 
as  Mr.  Roe." 

The  above  question  is  one  of  very  great  importance  to  those 
now  undergoing  treatment  as  well  as  to  prospective  patients,  for 
it  involves  a  consideration  of  something  more  than  the  time  and 
money  spent  by  those  who  are  advised  to  remain  the  additional 
week,  viz.,  that  of  a  complete  cure. 

Now  we  all  know  that  the  physiological  action  of  a  drug  will 
not  be  made  manifest  in  two  individuals  in  precisely  the  same 
length  of  time.  In  fact,  a  very  great  difference  will  be  noticed  in 
some  cases. 

To  explain  this  apparent  irregular  action  of  any  particular  drug 
we  must  take  into  consideration  various  things,  such  as  age,  tem- 
perament, condition  of  health,  habit,  idiosyncrasy,  etc.,  etc.  All 
these  have  an  influence  on  the  action  of  a  drug,  both  as  regards 
the  time  necessary  for  the  production  of  the  physiological  effects 
and  the  intensity  and  duration  of  the  same.  For  instance,  we 
have  seen  patients  in  whom  a  small  dose  of  chloral  hydrate  would 
produce  profound  sleep  in  a  comparatively  short  length  of  time. 
Whilst  others  have  required  very  large  doses  of  the  same  drug  in 
order  to  procure  any  rest  whatever,  although  there  was  no  appar- 
ent cause  by  which  the  difference  required  in  dosage  could  be  ex- 
plained. Again,  we  may  see  cases  of  ordinary  "  sore  throat  "  ex- 
isting under  precisely  the  same  circumstances  in  two  individuals. 
To  both  patients  the  same  medicine  is  administered,  and  what  is 
the  result?  One  responds  readily  to  the  beneficial  action  of  the 
drug,  and  is  well  in  a  very  short  time,  whereas,  the  other  may  re- 
quire days  to  complete  the  cure,  so  slow  has  been  his  system  in 
responding. 

Now,  all  these  things  were  applicable  to  the  Keeley  treatment, 
as  well  as  to  other  forms  of  medicine,  and,  as  a  consequence,  the 
time  required  to  produce  the  desired  effect  varies  in  different  indi- 
viduals. In  almost  every  case,  if  not  in  all  of  them,  the  beneficial 
action  of  the  treatment  is  observed  within  the  first  twenty-four 
hours.  Some  even  so  early  as  after  having  but  one  treatment 
feel  and  show  a  decided  improvement,  whilst  in  others  no  improve- 
ment is,  evident  until  after  from  twelve  to  twenty-four  hours.  The 
change  after  the  first  day  is  noticeable  not  only  to  the  physician 
and  patient,  but  everybody  remarks  it.  About  the  third  or  fourth 
day  the  patient  voluntarily  abandons  the  use  of  liquor,  after  which 
time  the  progress  toward  a  cure  becomes  even  more  marked,  and 


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it  depends  in  a  great  measure  upon  the  rapidity  with  which  his 
system  responds,  whether  or  no  his  cure  will  be  accomplished 
within  the  three  weeks.  He  appears  four  times  daily  at  the  insti- 
tute for  hypodermic  injection.  The  physician,  who  is  always  in- 
structed at  the  parent  house,  and  must  necessarily  understand 
thoroughly  the  action  of  the  Double  Chloride  of  Gold  Remedies, 
notes  carefully  how  the  patient  is  progressing.  He  looks  for  cer- 
tain effects,  for  the  Keeley  remedies  produce  positive  results,  and 
questions  with  regard  to  subjective  symptoms.  At  the  end  of 
three  weeks,  provided  he  has  received  the  full  benefit  of  the  cure, 
he  is  graduated.  As  in  the  case  of "  sore  throat,"  mentioned 
above,  he  may  not,  however,  have  responded  readily  enough,  so  he 
is  advised  to  take  another  week's  treatment.  There  are  other  rea- 
sons why  some  should  take  a  longer  course  of  treatment  than 
others.  One  is  that  during  the  fourth  week  a  special  tonic  treat- 
ment is  given  with  special  reference  to  the  nervous  system.  Some 
men  who  have  a  delicate  and  sensitive  nervous  organization  be- 
come, from  the  long  continued  use  of  alcohol,  broken  down  com- 
pletely, and  border  on  a  condition  of  neurasthenia  (nervous  pros- 
tration) when  they  commence  taking  treatment  for  alcoholism. 
Now,  though  they  be  completely  cured  of  the  alcoholic  disease 
proper,  at  the  completion  of  three  weeks' treatment,  the  nervous 
system  may  still  be  in  such  a  condition  that  a  week  of  special 
tonic  treatment  becomes  necessary. 

There  is  one  class,  however,  who  should  never  think  of  taking 
less  than  four  weeks'  treatment,  for  their  condition  requires  it. 
We  refer  to  the  periodical  drunkard  or  dipsomaniacs.  There  ex- 
ists a  vast  difference  between  a  habitual  and  a  periodical  drunk- 
ard. "  It  should  be  mentioned  that  periodical  drunkenness  is 
more  difficult  to  cure  than  habitual,  and  therefore  great  care  and 
caution  is  necessary,"  says  Dr.  Leslie  E.  Keeley  in  his  "Treatise 
on  Drunkenness."  Surely  such  words  coming  from  the  lips  of 
the  great  discoverer  himself  should  be  sufficient  to  convince  any 
periodical  drunkard  that  a  four  weeks'  course  of  treatment  is  none 
too  long  to  accomplish  in  his  case  a  complete  cure. 

When  entering  an  institute  do  so  with  your  mind  made  up  that 
you  will  not  only  live  up  to  the  rules  and  regulations,  but  that  you 
will  abide  by  whatever  the  physician  tells  you,  for  he  must  cer- 
tainly be  a  better  judge  of  your  condition  than  you  are.  Submit 
to  his  judgment  as  you  would  to  your  family  physician  in  case  of 
sickness.  Do  not  leave  his  protecting  wing  until  he  pronounces 
you  absolutely  cured,  and  you  will  live  to  bless  the  day  that  you 
entered  his  class  at  the  Keeley  Institute." — Golden  News,  Octo- 
ber 10,  1892. 


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In  some  way  the  impression  has  gone  abroad  that  when  a  per- 
son goes  through  the  treatment  the  constitution  is  enfeebled  and 
the  seeds  of  death  begin  at  once  to  grow.  This  is  an  idea  which 
was  started  and  is  kept  alive  only  by  jealous  physicians,  and  is 
wholly  false. 

Our  readers  need  have  no  fear  of  any  bad  result.  Now  and 
then  a  man  dies  who  has  been  treated,  but  upon  inquiry  it  will  al- 
ways be  found  that  he  was  already  far  advanced  in  some  disease 
that  could  not  be  cured,  and  that  was  certain  to  produce  death  ere 
long. 

As  a  fact,  figures  show  that  when  patients  come  from  the  treat- 
ment they  are  stronger  and  better  in  every  way  than  before." — 
Dr.  /.  E.  Mooney. 


The  idea  that  the  Keeley  Cure  involves  peril  to  life,  is  entirely 
erroneous,  but  is  fostered,  not  only  by  jealous  members  of  the 
medical  profession,  but  also  by  certain  sections  of  the  press  an- 
tagonistic to  the  Keeley  Cure.  It  is  calculated  by  competent 
men  that,  upon  a  moderate  estimate,  thirty  million  dollars  annually 
are  now  withdrawn  from  the  liquor  dealers  by  the  men  who  have 
been  cured  at  the  various  Keeley  Institutes;  what  wonder,  then, 
that  papers  devoted  to  the  liquor  trade  should  indulge  in  un- 
limited, malicious  misrepresentation  as  to  the  perils  to  life  involved 
in  the  cures.  The  great  pecuniary  inducement  to  a  steady  per- 
sistence in  this  kind  of  romancing,  which  is  designed  to  deceive 
the  unwary  public  is  very  forcibly  presented  by  Monte  Bennett 
in  his  long  and  very  able  article  on  The  Keeley  Cure,  published 
in  the  Superior  Daily  Call,  West  Superior,  April  9,  1892. 

We  subjoin  the  following  extract : 

WHERE     MANY    ATTACKS  COME    FROM. 

"Aside  from  the  enemies  in  his  own  profession  Dr.  Keeley 's 
greatest  foes  are  the  liquor  dealers.  But  in  this  instance  the  more 
antagonistic  they  are  the  more  he  will  prosper.  It  would  not  be 
surprising  to  see  a  combine  of  liquor  dealers  who  would  put  up 
money  to  malign  and  break  down  his  business  and  close  up  his 
institute  if  that  were  possible.  It  is  estimated  in  the  bi-chloride 
of  gold  club  at  Dwight,  that  not  a  patient  who  has  taken  the 
Keeley  treatment  expended  or  squandered  less  than  $300  yearly 
in  saloons,  and  in  scores  of  cases  from  that  sum  up  to  $3,000  to 
$5,000.  To  take  this  away  from  them  is  a  vast  drain  upon  the 
financial  support  of  the  saloons.  No  wonder  there  were  efforts 
made  to  cripple  the  treatment  by  legislative  interference  in  New 
York,  but  this  move  was  more  than  discounted  by  the  adoption 


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of  the  treatment   by   the    government    for    the    soldiers'  homes, 
national  and  State. 

Two  hundred  thousand  men  have  now  been  cured  of  the  drink 
disease  and  turned  away  from  courses  of  waste  and  profligacy, 
and  others  are  being  reclaimed  at  the  rate  of  30,000  a  year,  and 
next  year  the  number  throughout  Christendom  will  exceed  50,000, 
and  possibly  reach  100,000.  Think  of  this  vast  army  restored  to 
sobriety,  usefulness  and  good  citizenship  !  The  men  will  belong 
to  The  Associated  Keeley  Bi-Chloride  of  Gold  Clubs,  which,  to 
say  the  least,  will  have  nothing  in  common  with  the  saloons  or 
the  liquor  traffic.  It  is  the  only  successful  and  practical  tem- 
perance reform  the  world  has  ever  seen.  Those  already  reclaimed 
at  the  low  estimate  of  an  expenditure  of  $300  each  per  year, 
represent  the  sum  of  $60,000,000  taken  from  the  saloons,  but 
twice  or  three  times  this  sum  would  be  nearer  the  true  figure.  A 
fairer  average  would  be  $600  a  year  for  most  of  the  patients  of 
the  class  that  visit  Dwight  or  the  branch  institutes,  and  thus  the 
vast  total  of  $120,000,000  a  year  is  reached,  with  another  $50,000,- 
OOO  to  be  added  by  those  cured  and  reclaimed  next  year,  and  so 
on  almost  ad  libitum,  and  the  whole  vast  sum  restored  to  chan- 
nels of  legitimate  business,  of  home  and  property  getting,  of 
schooling,  refinement  and  culture,  while  the  physical  and  moral 
benefits  to  the  human  race  arising  from  the  Keeley  discovery  is 
inestimable. 

The  "  whisky  trust  "  is  strong,  but  trust  and  faith  in  the  Keeley 
Cure  is  greater  and  a  much  better  investment.  King  Alcohol  is 
mighty,  but  the  gold  antidote  is  mightier.  Its  influences  now 
girdle  the  earth.  It  is  the  great  reform  of  the  nineteenth  century 
— the  new  deliverance.  It  is  of  greater  consequence  than  a  war, 
because  it  establishes  a  great  principle  by  reclaiming  instead  of 
slaughtering  its  adherents  and  volunteers,  and  it  is  of  far  more 
importance  than  even  our  national  election,  because  it  is  more 
general  and  lasting  in  its  results  to  mankind. 


The  press  of  the  Pacific  Coast  as  well  as  of  the  Eastern  States, 
has  generally  been  characterized  by  the  most  fair  and  honorable 
treatment  of  the  Keeley  Cure,  and  has  given  it  the  most  unquali- 
fied and  unstinted  endorsement.  There  are  a  few  exceptions  of 
the  baser  sort. 

On  Sunday  evening,  May  15,  1892,  Dr.  Leslie  E.  Keeley  ac- 
cepted the  invitation  of  Dr.  Talmage  to  address  his  vast  audience 
of  12,000  people  at  the  Brooklyn  Tabernacle.  Dr.  Keeley  being 
at  that  time  en  route  to  Europe. 


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"  Prior  to  the  address  Dr.  Talmage  had  announced  that  at  its 
close  he  desired  to  ask  certain  questions  of  Dr.  L.  E.  Keeley  to 
clear  up  some  doubts  in  the  public  mind,  questions  which  had 
been  suggested  by  prominent  physicians  and  citizens.  At  the 
conclusion  of  the  address  he  said : 

"  Doctor,  are  there  any  poisons  in  this  cure — any  atropine  or 
strychnine?" 

Dr.  Keeley — There  is  nothing  deleterious  in  the  cure.  There 
is  nothing  inimical  to  life  or  to  health.  I  think  it  a  physical  im- 
possibility for  the  cure  to  do  harm  in  any  way .  A  child  might 
drink  a  barrel  of  it  under  proper  restrictions,  and  every  spoonful 
would  do  the  child  good  instead  of  harm. 

I  know  of  nothing  in  the  remedies  that  will  injure  in  any  way, 
and  I  do  not  think  that  anyone  has  ever  been  the  least  disturbed 
by  taking  the  remedies,  either  mentally  or  physically." 

NO  ATROPHINE  OR  STRYCHNINE. 

"The  reply  to  Dr.  Talmage 's  first  question,  whether  the  Keeley 
medicine  contained  either  atropine  or  strychnine,  was  not 'direct 
enough  to  suit  some  of  the  editors  of  the  New  York  daily  papers, 
who  accused  the  doctor,  the  day  following,  of  evading  a  direct 
reply.  He  noticed  the  comments,  and  when  he  arrived  at  White 
Plains,  N.  Y.,  where  he  addressed  the  men  under  treatment  at 
the  branch  institute  there,  he  took  occasion,  once  for  all,  to  make 
a  positive  denial.  He  said  there:  UA  lie  has  gone  forth  for  the 
purpose  of  breaking  down  my  remedies  and  their  use  to  the  effect 
that  they  contain  atropine  and  strychnine,  which  are  both  inimi- 
cal to  mental  and  physical  health.  Now,  I  declare  more  emphati- 
cally that  there  is  neither  atropine  nor  strychnine  in  my  remedies, 
and,  further,  I  will  say  that  if  three  reputable  chemists,  whose 
honesty  cannot  be  questioned,  will  meet  and  analyze  my  remedies 
for  either  of  these  poisons  and  find  them,  making  their  affidavits 
to  that  effect,  I  will  make  my  formula  known  to  the  world." — 
"Keeley  Current  Literature"  No.  2,  June,  1892. 


So  much  has  been  said  concerning  the  sad  death  of  James  G. 
Fair,  Jr.,  it  having  been  claimed  that  he  was  killed  by  the  Keeley 
treatment,  the  following  unequivocal  and  straightforward  letter 
from  ex-Senator  Fair  will  be  reao!  with  interest: 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAI,.,  July  25th,  1893. 

Or.  G.  E.  SussJorff,  President  of  the  Ke- ley  Institute^  Carson  City>  Nevada. — 
DEAR  SIR:  Replying  to  your  letter  of  yesterday,  I  beg  to  say  that  after  the 
death  of  my  son,  James  G.  Fair,  three  prominent  physicians  of  this  city,  at 
my  request,  held  an  autopsy  on  his  body.  The  result  of  that  autopsy  was  to 
show  the  young  man  died  of  fatty  degeneration  of  the  heart,  and  that  Dr. 
Keeley 's  treatment  of  his  case  was  in  no  way  responsible  for  his  death. 

Yours  truly, 

JAMES  G.  FAIR. 


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An  Interview  With  Ex-Senator  Fair; 

In  an  interview  with  ex-Senator  Fair,  that  gentleman  expressed 
his  unqualified  approval  of  the  system  pursued  at  the  Keeley 
Institute,  and  warmly  indorsed  it  as  a  tremendous  power  for  good. 
Referring  to  the  death  of  his  son  James,  the  ex-Senator  said: 

"  I  fail  to  understand  what  motive  could  have  prompted  the 
falsehood  which  made  it  appear  that  my  son's  death  was  caused 
by  the  Keeley  treatment.  So  far  as  concerns  this  treatment,  it 
was  successful  tn  curing  my  son  of  the  liquor  habit,  and  for 
several  weeks  after  he  left  the  institute  he  was  in  robust  health. 
We  knew  that  he  had  a  heart  trouble,  and  had  feared  serious 
consequences  from  that.  But  the  Keeley  treatment  did  not  in 
any  degree  aggravate  that  trouble,  and  it  was  not  in  any  manner 
responsible  for  his  death,  which  was  caused  by  fatty  degeneration 
of  the  heart,  as  was  demonstrated  at  the  autopsy,  and  nothing 
else.  My  son  Charles  was  also  cured  at  the  D wight  Institute. 
With  him  the  liquor  habit  is  certainly  eradicated,  and  he  is  now 
a  man,  with  every  sense  and  faculty  perfect.  Nor  has  he  shown 
since  his  cure,  any  unpleasant  effects  from  the  treatment,  which 
has  saved  and  restored  him  to  me." 

"Then  I  may  say,"  questioned  the  reporter,  uthat  you  approve 
the  Keeley  treatment  and  recommend  it  ?  " 

"  You  may,"  said  Mr.  Fair,  "  and  you  may  also  say  that  I  fully 
indorse  it,  and  believe  it  to  be  one  of  the  grandest  discoveries  of 
our  century.  I  believe  it  to  be  infallible  in  the  cure  of  the 
alcohol  habit.  Several  other  cases  than  those  I  have  referred  to 
have  come  under  my  notice,  and  in  no  instance  has  a  failure 
attended  this  excellent  system  of  treatment. — San  Francisco 
Daily  Report,  July  30,  1892. 


Many  Quacks  Are  on  the  Rostrum. 

It  must  not  be  forgotten  that  there  are  a  great  number  of  pre~ 
tenders  who  claim  to  give  the  Keeley  treatment.  Among  the 
questions  asked  at  the  Brooklyn  Tabernacle  was  the  following: 

Dr.  Talmage — "How  many  initiative  institutions  are  there  that 

you  know  of?" 

Dr.  Keeley "  I  believe   there  are  now  some  two  hundred  am 

seventy-seven.  Of  those  two  hundred  and  seventy-seven  there 
is  not  a  solitary  one  which  has  originated  a  single  thought.  They 
all  imitate  my  methods.  They  all  use  my  literature  when  they 
want  to  write  up  their  establishments,  and  then  use  even  my 
language."— Keeley  Current  Literature,  June. 


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We  are  afraid  to  attempt  to  say  how  many  there  are  on  the 
Pacific  Coast,  but  they  are  springing  up  as  thick  as  mushrooms, 
and  of  course  it  is  quite  convenient  to  have  their  failures  charged 
home  to  a  Keeley  institute.  This  is  the  experience  east  of  the 
Rocky  mountains,  and  it  will  most  probably  be  found  to  be  true 
here  also. 


Keeley  Medicine  Harmless. 

From    the    Standard ,    Wellington,    Kansas. 

"  It  is  usual  to  allude  to  all  cures  for  the  liquor  habit  as  the 
"  Keeley  "  cure.  It  is  also  customary  when  a  person  dies  under 
treatment  to  say  that  he  died  while  undergoing  the  Keeley  cure. 
Now,  there  are  a  number  of  companies  who  advertise  and  try  to 
cure  drunkenness.  The  Keeley  Company  claims  that  no  one 
has  died  while  taking  the  Keeley  cure  in  any  one  of  their 
numerous  institutes." 


The  philosophic  view  is  admirably  presented  by  Dr.  G.  E. 
Sussdorff  in  his  lecture  already  quoted  : 

"Another  point  should  be  noticed.  Every  death  that  occurs 
of  a  Keeley  graduate  is  attributed  to  his  treatment  for  drunk- 
enness or  the  opium  habit.  The  Keeley  Institute  cannot  insure 
a  man  so  that  he  can  never  die.  A  certain  percentage  of  men  die 
every  year.  I  think  in  the  case  of  men  who  drink  it  is  larger  than 
in  any  other  class.  Out  of  every  thousand  at  least  thirty  die 
every  year.  The  Keeley  graduate  goes  home  in  better  general 
health  than  he  has  enjoyed  for  many  years,  but  a  certain  percentage 
of  these  die  every  year,  of  course,  and  are  not  exempt  from  paying 
the  last  debt  to  nature.  Many  other  assertions  prejudicial  to  this 
treatment  have  been  made,  one,  for  instance,  that  the  treatment 
is  administered  alike  to  all,  without  first  making  an  examination 
as  to  the  presence  of  organic  disease  or  other  conditions  contra- 
dicting the  treatment.  This  last  assertion,  I  am  sure,  you  all 
know  to  be  unjust  and  untrue. 

Perhaps  the  only  way — and  the  best  way — is  to  attribute  to  the 
liquor  disease  those  attacks  upon  the  Bi-Chloride  of  Gold  treatment. 
The  influence  of  alcoholism  is  felt  in  every  avenue  of  social  life. 
Men  cannot  think  and  reason  fully  when  their  mentality  evolves 
distorted  conceptions  of  most  things,  especially  when  the  appetite 
for  intoxicating  fluids  is  discussed.  They  resent  in  every  way  the 
idea  that  they  are  not  able  to  control  it,  and  the  suggestion  of  the 
Keeley  cure  is  felt  to  be  an  indignity.  So,  through  ignorance  or 


self-interest  they  use  every  frivolous  pretext  to  discourage  and 
frighten  men  from  undergoing  a  cure  for  drunkenness. 

All  this  will  right  itself  as  the  great  work  goes  on.  It  will  soon 
silence  all  enemies." 

The  respectable  portion  of  the  Eastern  press  is  almost  unani- 
mous on  this  question.  Such  testimonies  as  the  following  might 
be  published  by  the  score : 

BUT  ONE  RESULT  FROM  TAKING  TREATMENT. 

"There  is  circulated  all  over  the  country  some  mendacious 
reports  in  regard  to  fatal  results  that  follow  the  Keeley  cure  that 
we  desire  to  ventilate  briefly  for  the  benefit  of  the  public.  We 
hear  wherever  we  go  that  a  man  having  taken  the  cure  who  starts 
to  drink  again  will  most  certainly  die  directly  from  the  effects  of 
the  cure  on  the  whisky.  Now  we  have  it  from  the  highest  authority 
that  this  is  untrue,  and  is  circulated  by  those  who  are  using  every 
means  to  prevent  men  from  getting  out  of  the  ditch.  It  is  also 
said  that  it  will  drive  men  insane.  This,  too,  is  false,  and  we  say 
and  can  prove  that  there  has  never  been  one  harmful  symptom 
resulting  from  the  cure  in  any  one  of  the  200,000  who  have  taken 
it.  It  is  perfectly  harmless  to  the  system  and  on  the  contrary  it 
is  beneficial,  and  builds  up  in  almost  every  direction.  Its  enemies 
are  in  effect  keeping  men  rushing  to  the  shambles,  and  God  will 
hold  them  accountable  for  the  blood  of  their  brothers.  Men  of 
intelligence,  in  the  face  of  facts  and  results,  cannot  condemn  the 
Keeley  cure  without  assuming  a  fearful  responsibility.  Men  of 
intelligence,  who  want  to  throw  off  their  awful  burden,  and  can 
go  to  Dwight,  are  committing  deliberate  suicide  by  staying  away, 
There  can  be  but  one  result  from  a  man  taking  this  treatment, 
and  that  is  a  cure.  It  is  as  sure  as  any  acknowledged  medical 
fact  of  the  day.  Its  enemies  are  fast  disappearing,  or  are  com- 
pelled by  facts  to  keep  silence." — Editorial  in  New  Brighton, 
III.,  News. 

Testimonies  of  Eminent  Divines. 

Dr.  Talmage  visited  Dwight  in  April  and  gave  one  of  his  elo- 
quent addresses  to  the  students,  who  at  that  time  numbered  from 
10,000  to  12,000. 

ADDRESSING    THE   PATIENTS. 

"Treatment  Hall"  was  crowded  at  5  o'clock,  when  Dr.  Keeley 
called  the  assemblage  to  order  and  said : 

GENTLEMEN  :  We  have  to-day  with  us  for  a  limited  while  Dr. 
Talmage,  of  whom  you  all  know.  It  would  be  idle  to  introduce 


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him,  or  to  say  anything  about  him.  The  world  knows  Dr. 
Talmage.  He  to-day  is  one  of  the  very  few  men  of  the  world 
who  can  arrest  attention.  Even  his  lightest  word  is  heard  in 
forty-eight  hours  after  speaking  it,  the  world  over.  I  need  say 
no  more.  [Applause]. 

In  the  course  of  his  address  Dr.  Talmage  gave    the  following 
valuable  testimony : 

REDEEMED  BY  THE  KEELEY  CURE. 

"I  have  now  in  my  mind  a  young  man  who  had  broken  his 
father's  heart,  his  mother's  heart — as  splendid  a  young  fellow  as 
there  is  in  this  land  to-day;  fine  cerebral  development,  fine  educa- 
tion. As  lovely  a  mother  as  has  any  man  in  all  the  earth.  He 
was  bolstered  up  and  he  fell,  and  put  in  inebriate  asylums  and  he 
fell,  and  everything  tried  with  him  possible.  He  became  a  con- 
verted man  and  joined  the  church.  Don't  let  anyone  scoff  and 
say  he  was  not  a  Christian.  He  was  as  much  a  Christian  as  any 
one  in  this  house,  but  this  awful  habit  drew  him  down  and  down, 
and  there  seemed  to  be  no  cure;  and  after  a  while  I  said:  "Where 
is  So  and  So?"  and  they  said:  "He  is  trying  the  Keeley  cure," 
and  to  make  a  long  story  short,  he  is  redeemed  and  as  fine  a  man 
in  business  as  there  is  in  New  York.  The  Keeley  cure  saved  him , 
and  nothing  else  under  Heaven  would.  So  I  extol  the  grace  of 
God  and  at  the  same  time  extol  the  common-sensical,  scientific, 
earnest  aid,  experiment,  effort,  discovery!  But  tliere  is  no  resisting 
it — we  cannot  read  it  down,  we  cannot  talk  it  down — it  will  become 
triumphant  and  be  recognized  in  all  the  land,  and  all  the  lands  of 
earth.  It  has  on  it  the  mark  of  the  approval  of  the  Lord,  God 
Almighty.  That  is  my  opinion,  and  I  wish  you  all  to  be  of  good 
cheer. 

"Courage,  brother,  do  not  stumble, 
Though  thy  path  be  dark  as  night, 
There's  a  star  to  guide  the  humble, 
Trust  in  God  and  .do  the  right. 

[Applause]. 
Some  will  love  thee, 

Some  will  hate  thee, 
Some  will  flatter, 

Some  will  slight, 

Cease  from  man  and  look  above  thee, 
Trust  in  God  and  do  the  right. ' ' 

— Banner  of  Gold,  April  30,  1892. 

Dr.  Talmage  has  stated  that  before  he  visited  Dwight,  111.,  he 
had  made  a  careful  investigation  of  the  Keeley  system,  and  was 
thoroughly  satisfied.  Six  months  later,  after  abundant  evidence 
of  the  efficiency  of  the  Keeley  cure,  Dr.  Talmage  writes  in  The 
Golden  News,  October  24th : 


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THE    WORK    HAS    ONLY    BEGUN. 

"Gentlemen,  I  am  mightly  impressed  with  this  whole  Keeley 
cure.  I  believe  it  has  just  begun  its  work  in  comparison  with  that 
which  will  follow — which  it  will  yet  achieve,  and  there  will  not  be 
a  neighborhood  in  the  United  States,  or  in  the  world  that  will  not 
be  finally  blessed  with  it."  DR.  TALMAGE. 

We  might  print  many  pages  from  the  speeches  and  writings  of 
the  eloquent  doctor,  but  no  additions  could  make  his  testimony 
more  unique  and  perfect.  When  Dr.  Keeley  gave  a  lecture  on  the 
Keeley  cure,  December,  1891,  at  the  invitation  of  the  Press  Asso- 
ciation of  Chicago,  among  the  many  eminent  guests  were:  The 
Rev.  Frank  M.  Bristol  and  the  Rev.  Dr.  H.  W.  Thomas.  They 
are  briefly  reported  as  follows  (Chicago  Tribune,  December  19, 
1891): 

INTERESTS   BOTH   RICH    AND    POOR. 
The  Rev.  Frank  M.  Bristol  Discusses  the  Benefits  of  the  Cure. 

The  Rev.  Frank  M.  Bristol  was  the  next  visitor.  He  said  : 
"  There  is  not  a  cottage  so  humble  in  all  this  land  that  is  not 
interested,  vitally  interested,  in  the  subject  that  brings  us  together 
this  evening.  To-morrow  eyes  accustomed  to  tears  will  read  the 
daily  papers  to  find  in  the  utterances  of  this  man  of  science  some 
degree  of  hope.  Abraham  Lincoln  once  said,  "All  rational  men 
are  agreed  that  intemperance  is  the  greatest  evil  that  inflicts 
humanity."  Upon  that  we  are  all  agreed,  and  a  remedy  for  it  is 
the  only  question.  I  have  stated  before  that  an  ounce  of  cure  is 
worth  a  pound  of  prevention  at  a  certain  stage.  We  want  some- 
thing practical.  We  want  a  cure.  I  believe  in  theories,  but  they 
are  like  eggs — good  things  if  they  hatch  before  spoiling.  There 
are  many  temperance  theories  spoiling  from  age.  Our  con- 
sciences have  been  trying  to  hatch  something  from  nothing.  It 
is  to  be  expected  this  discovery  should  be  met  with  opposition. 
A  sermon  was  preached  against  it,  and  I  venture  that  minister, 
were  he  alive  to-night,  would  regret  his  utterance.  Some  of  the 
preachers  of  Chicago  will  yet  live  to  take  back  some  of  the 
sermons  they  have  been  preaching  against  the  Keeley  cure." 


Getting  Down  to  Practical  Sense. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  H.  W.  Thomas  Thinks  the  World  Is  Improving. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  H.  W.  Thomas  followed  Dr.  Bristol.  He  said: 
"  When  Brother  Bristol  and  I  were  young  we  used  to  hear  a 
great  deal  about  the  world  being  lost.  Now  we  are  getting  down 
to  practical  sense  in  talking  about  the  world  being  sick,  being 


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diseased,  and  seeking  out  a  remedy,  the  best  cure,  and  we  are  on 
much  nearer  and  more  practical  grounds. 

Man  is  built  upon  the  principle  of  an  engine.  He  must  stop 
at  stations  for  food  and  drink,  and  then  moves  on  to  the  next 
station,  where  he  must  again  eat  and  drink.  Life  is  sustained  by 
some  forms  of  eating.  I  suppose  the  medical  men  present  will 
agree  with  me  that  life  is  brought  into  existence  by  stimulation 
and  is  sustained  by  food.  It  is  a  law  of  nature.  But  man  with 
chemistry  in  his  hands  has  changed  nature — has  changed  the 
world.  Man  has  taken  it  to  pieces  and  recombined  it.  Man 
has  gone  through  all  the  different  kinds  of  fruit  and  grain  and  by 
chemistry  has  produced  alcohol.  This  is  the  bottom  of  the  tem- 
perance question.  This  is  an  age  in  which  we  have  produced 
amazing  forces.  Nature  has  gone  further  in  some  forms  of  stimu- 
lation. There  is  the  tea  plant,  the  coffee  berry,  and  the  weed  of 
tobacco.  All  these,  are  in  some  sense,  termed  stimulants,  and  it 
is  a  singular  fact  that  most  people  like  them.  Why?  I  suppose 
it  is  because  in  some  way  they  quicken  the  action  of  the  system ; 
that  they  in  some  way  assist  the  great  reserve  powers  to  go  long 
distances  and  carry  greater  loads.  It  lifts  them  up  into  physical 
ecstacy  and  the  next  day  take  a  little  more.  This  is  the  rising 
and  falling  of  the  tide  which  finally  breaks  every  vow  and  every 
resolution  and  sweeps  on  to  the  sea.  They  are  not  strong  swim- 
mers and  the  perilous  waves  ultimately  engulf  them. 

Dr.  Keeley,  proposes  to  fight  chemistry  by  chemistry  he  pro- 
poses to  antidote  one  poison  with  another.  It  looks  as  if  he  had 
accomplished  it  and  if  so, let  us  say,  "Praise  the  Lord, "and  when 
we  say  this  we  do  not  mean  to  undervalue  the  other  remedies. 

It  is  better  never  to  drink,  but  if  we  become  drunkards  let  us 
bring  in  our  chemistry,  the  chemistry  of  this  cure.  That  is  all  the 
argument  there  ever  was  for  all  the  good  there  may  be  in  religion. 
Let  me  say  to  you  in  this  age  of  chemistry  we  have  called  upon 
the  physical  forces  of  heaven  and  earth,  electricity,  dynamite,  and 
gunpowder,  and  we  must  handle  them  safely.  It  is  more  difficult 
to  live. now  than  a  hundred  years  ago  because  we  have  brought 
these  greater  forces  to  bear  upon  our  daily  life.  Dr.  Keeley  has 
been  studying,  praying  for  years;  has  been  working  for  something 
to  cure  this  terrible  disease  of  intemperance.  The  medical  profes- 
sion is  a  progressive  profession  and  instead  of  antagonizing  him, 
while  they  would  like  to  know  the  remedy,  they  are  pleased  at  the 
discovery  of  the  cause." 


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It  Has  Proven  Itself. 


The  fact  that  Dr.  Keeley  can  remove  the  appetite  for  strong 
drink  at  once  and  forever  from  the  drunkard  is  to-day  attested  by 
tens  of  thousands  of  men  and  women.  It  is  no  longer  a  theory 
nor  to  be  questioned.  It  has  proven  itself. 

REV.  P.  E.  HOLP. 


A   Welcome  Endorsement. 


Andrew  Wilson,   F.   B.    S.   E.,    Etc.,   the   Editor  of   "Health,"   Invites 
Dr.   Edmund's    Opinion. 

From  the  issue  of  Health  (London),  for  23rd  September  Dr.  Keeley's  admirers  will  be 
gratified  to  read  the  following  comments  by  the  editor  in  introducing  a  letter 
from  Dr.  Edmunds  upon  the  cure  of  inebriety  by  Dr.  Keeley's  methods  and 
medicines. 


"I  have  taken  up  the  dual  position  that  Dr.  Keeley,  of  "In- 
ebriety  Cure  "  fame,  has  a  perfect  right  to  use  his  knowledge  for 
his  own  personal  profit,  and  that  on  account  of  the  secrecy  he 
thinks  it  right  to  maintain  in  the  matter  of  his  remedies,  he  can- 
not expect  medical  men  to  accord  him  their  support.  Medical 
use  and  wont  are  entirely  against  the  employment  of  "  secret  " 
remedies  ;  hence  it  is  useless  for  Dr.  Keeley  to  invite  medical  co- 
operation so  long  as  he  refuses  to  make  known  the  exact  rationale 
of  his  treatment.  This  much  is  admitted  on  both  sides,  I  believe, 
Dr .  Keeley  is  within  his  rights  in  keeping  to  himself  the  details 
of  his  method,  and  medical  men  are  within  theirs  in  refusing  re- 
cognition to  his  views  and  opinions. 

This  is  the  "  professional  "  view  of  things.  The  scientific  view 
(to  which  personally  I  cling)  is,  that  for  the  satisfactory  investiga- 
tion of  any  results  we  must  have  a  knowledge  of  data  and  causes. 
It  is  with  Dr.  Keeley's  cure  for  inebriety  as  with,  say,  astronomy, 
physics  or  biology  at  large.  I  may  see  certain  results  and  recog- 
nize them  as  true  and  valid ;  but,  scientifically  I  want  to  know 
how  these  results  are  produced.  I  cannot  be  said  to  know  enough 
to  warrant  fair  and  just  conclusions  on  my  part  until  I  know  the 
means  which  are  used  to  produce  the  results  in  question.  This 
also  is  fair  reasoning,  I  think,  to  which  Dr.  Keeley,  as  a  trained 
medical  man  will  not  object." 

Dr.  James  Edmunds,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  London  Tem- 
perance Hospital,  however,  has  publicly  queried  the  application  of 
the  rules  set  by  the  Royal  College  of  Physicians,  and  has  so  far 
been  true  to  his  faith  in  Dr.  Keeley's  cures  (as  witnessed  by  him- 


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self),  that  he  has  placed  the  fact  on  record  of  his  belief  in  the  effi- 
cacy of  this  method  of  curing  inebriety.  I  have  lately  had  the 
pleasure  of  a  long  interview  with  Dr.  Edmunds,  and  have  shown 
the  rocords  of  cases  (professionally  investigated  by  and  known  to 
him),  in  which  the  alcohol  habit  has  apparently  been  cured  by 
the  Keeley  system,  as  now  practiced  in  London.  Dr.  Edmunds 
knows  more  than  I  do,  of  course,  about  Dr.  Keeley 's  cure  (in  fact, 
I  know  nothing  at  all  regarding  the  composition  of  the  remedies), 
but  I  think  I  am  within  the  mark  in  saying  that  Dr.  Edmunds 
himself  would  not  venture  to  say  he  is  acquainted  with  the  nature 
of  the  drugs  used  in  the  course  of  the  cure.  Be  that  as  it  may, 
Dr-.  Edmunds  is  content  to  assert  that  he  has  seen  results  in  the 
cure  of  alcoholism  and  of  the  morphine  habit,  such  as  have  hitherto 
been  effected  by  no  other  system  ;  and  although,  as  I  have  said, 
this  is  (scientifically)  an  unsatisfactory  declaration,  Dr.  Edmunds 
pins  his  faith  firmly  by  the  results  he  has  witnessed. 

1  have  asked  Dr.  Edmunds  to  give  some  account  of  what  he 
knows  regarding  the  Keeley  cure,  and  he  has  kindly  consented  to 
do  so.  He  has  supplied  me  with  the  following  details,  which,  if 
only  on  the  principle  of  keeping  my  readers  abreast  of  the 
latest  doings  of  medicine,  will  be  perused  with  interest.  For  my 
my  own  part,  I  await  with  something  of  scientific  impatience  a 
knowledge  of  the  exact  means  used  in  the  Keeley  system.  I  may 
never  succeed  in  getting  this  information,  it  is  true,  but  what  Dr. 
Edmunds  has  to  say  should  impress  his  fellow  physicians  deeply, 
as  the  record  of  an  honest  and  fair-minded  man,  who  has  set  aside 
professional  custom  in  so  far  as  it  would  cause  him  to  refuse  to  in- 
vestigate any  cure  the  rationale  of  which  may  be  unknown.  It 
might  cause  somewhat  of  a  reform  in  medical  matters  did  some  of 
Dr.  Edmunds'  colleagues  follow  his  example.  The  following  is 
Dr.  Edmunds'  letter: 

"I.  I  have  been  asked  by  Dr.  Andrew  Wilson  to  say  a  few 
words  on  the  Keeley  Treatment  of  Inebriety, and  I  cheerfull  re- 
spond to  his  invitation. 

"  My  excuse  for  venturing  to  speak  on  this  subject  is  that  I 
have  been  an  active  medical  worker  in  temperance  for  thirty 
years  ;  that  for  eighteen  and  a  half  years  I  have  worked  as  senior 
physician  at  the  London  Temperance  Hospital,  and  that  I  have 
more  cases  of  inebriety  referred  to  me  professionally  than  any 
other  physician  in  London. 

"  3.  On  this  subject  I  have  never  written  until  I  wrote  in  The 
Lancet  of  July  30,  (page  285),  and  then  I  wrote  because  I  felt 
that  a  rude  and  untruthful  attack  had  been  made  upon  an  Amer- 
can  physician.  The  reason  why,  with  all  this  experience,  I  have 
never  written  anything  on  this  terrible  subject  is  simply  that  I 


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had  nothing  to  say  except  to  repeat  that  "  the  cure  of  drunken- 
ness is  to  leave  off  drinking."  The  real  question  is,  how  to  make 
an  inebriate  leave  off  drinking?  This  we  have  hitherto  failed  to 
accomplish,  when  once  the  drink-crave  is  firmly  established.  These 
cases  so  sickened  me  that  I  was  tired  of  advising  about  them  ; 
and  the  only  thing  the  inebriate  asylum  doctors  have  done  is  to 
persistently  clamor  for  greater  and  readier  powers,  to  incarcerate 
their  inebriate  patients. 

"  4.  Of  late  it  has  been  forced  upon  my  attention  that  inebri- 
ates from  all  parts  of  the  world  were  making  pilgrimages  to 
D wight,  Illinois,  U.  S.  A.,  and  that  morphia  users  and  alcohol 
drinkers,  with  whom  no  method  had  ever  been  useful,  were  com- 
ing back  cured.  It  became  my  duty  to  my  patients  to  investi- 
gate the  facts  which  came  before  me,  and  those  investigations  con- 
vinced me  that  there  was  really  'something'  in  the  Keeley 
treatment.  I  can  produce  in  London  now  such  cases  for  profes- 
sional inspection,  and  I  have  advised  inebriate  patients  to  go  to 
the  Keely  Institute,  which  is  now  available  in  London  at  5  Port- 
land Place.  I  cannot,  of  course,  give  names,  unless  by  explicit 
permission  on  the  part  of  patients,  but  I  am  allowed  by  Lord 
Graves  to  give  his  experience.  Lord  Graves,  in  April  last,  was 
taking  by  hypodermic  injection,  twenty-five  grains  of  morphia 
every  day — a  quantity  which  would  kill  any  ten  ordinary  people. 
He  could  not  live  without  this  perpetual  drugging,  and  with  it  his 
life  was  a  burden  to  him.  He  had  been  a  slave  to  the  morphia 
habit  for  many  years,  and  no  treatment  had  ever  helped  him  to 
shake  it  off.  He  went  to  Dwight,  and  in  thirty-five  days  (being  a 
very  bad  case)  he  was  cured  of  the  morphia  habit.  From  the 
commencement  of  the  Keeley  treatment  he  never  took  more  than 
twelve  and  a  half  grains  in  all  of  morphia.  On  returning  to 
London  he  came  to  see  me,  and  he  has  been  well  ever  since,  and 
is  now  a  new  man.  Last  evening  (September  i8th),  I  saw  him 
again,  and  had  a  long  conversation  with  him.  He  still  tells  me 
that  he  has  entirely  lost  his  morphia  crave.  Lord  Graves  allows 
me  to  say  that  he  will  be  glad  to  see  anyone  upon  this  subject,  if 
they  will  call  upon  him  or  write  to  him,  at  34  Duke  street,  St. 
James. 

"5.  Other  cases,  equally  remarkable,  of  the  cure,  both  of 
inebriety  and  of  the  morphia-crave,  are  within  my  personal 
knowledge.  Btnoroft  Library . 

"6.  Dr.  Keeley,  instead  of  locking  up  these  unfortunate  inebri- 
ates for  long  periods,  'cures  the  drink  crave'  by  remedies  which 
act  as  arsenic  or  quinine  acts  in  curing  an  ague.  This  is  a  new 
line  of  thought.  It  is  one  which  has  helped  me  immensely  in  my 
own  work  on  these  cases ;  while  careful  watching  and  study  of  Dr. 


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Keeley's  results  have  convinced  me  that  Dr.  Keeley  knows  more 
about  handling  morphia  men  and  alcohol  drinkers  than  all  the  rest 
of  the  profession  put  together. 

"/.  There  is  now  to  be  seen  at  Dwight,  the  most  wonderful 
clinic  in  the  world.  Twelve  hundred  inebriates,  on  an  average, 
are  congregating  at  that  agricultural  village  to  march  through  the 
hall  of  the  Keeley  Institute  four  times  a  day,  for  the  inoculations 
which  are  administered  by  Dr.  Keeley's  assistant  physicians. 
These  patients  stay  from  three  to  four,  or,  sometimes,  as  with 
Lord  Graves,  five  weeks.  Four  times  a  day  these  patients  form 
into  four  lines — first  week  men,  second  week  men,  third  week 
men,  fourth  week  men — and  march  past  the  four  inoculating 
physicians  at  the  rate  of  six  a  minute.  Among  these  men  are 
physicians,  lawyers,  clergymen,  journalists,  and  men  generally  who 
do  the  brain  wOrk  of  the  world.  The  great  bulk  of  these  men, 
like  Lord  Graves  go  home  cured,  and  send  all  their  inebriate 
friends  off  to  Dwight. 

These  facts  are  not  even  disputed  by  anyone  who  is  worth 
listening  to,  and  there  is  no  need  for  me  to  cite  evidence  in  their 
proof.  Some  120,000  such  inebriates,  including  2,000  inebriate 
physicians,  have  journeyed  to  the  Keeley  Institutes  in  America, 
and  have  submitted  themselves  to  this  treatment.  Great  news- 
papers, like  the  Chicago  Tribune,  knowing  of  the  work  done  in 
its  own  district,  vouch  in  strenuous  leaders  for  the  good  which  is 
being  done  by  this  treatment."  "  JAMES  EDMUNDS, 

«M.  D.,  M.  R.,  C.  P.  Lond." 


Neal  Dow  and  Dr.  Keeley.     N 

An  Interview  About  the  Cure  With  the  Famous  Old  Maine  Prohibitionist. 

"I  called  upon  Gen.  Neal  Dow  at  his  residence,  in  Portland, 
Maine,  on  Tuesday  morning  last,  bearing  a  letter  of  introduction 
from  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Emma  Dow  Gould.  The  General  was 
seated  in  his  library  reading  the  newspaper  as  I  was  ushered  in. 
There  was  something  more  than  the  ordinary  welcome  accorded 
to  an  ordinary  reporter  in  the  manner  in  which  this  hero  of  Pro- 
hibition battles,  and  ex-Governor  of  the  State  of  Maine,  arose 
and  took  me  warmly  by  the  hand.  His  handsome  face  glowed 
with  genuine  pleasure  as  he  read  his  daughter's  letter  telling  him 
that  I  wanted  to  talk  with  him  about  Dr.  Keeley  and  the  great 
Keeley  cure. 

A  GRAND  OLD  MAN. 

It  was  almost  impossible  to  imagine  that  that  happy,  genial 
face  represented  eighty -eight  years.  The  General,  however, 


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assured  me  that  such  was  the  fact.  Even  when  he  looked  very 
serious,  which  was  the  case  when  speaking  of  the  evils  of  the 
liquor  traffic,  he  appeared  twenty  years  younger  than  he  really  is. 
Surely  God  blesses  this  grand  old  man. 

BELIEVES    IN    KEELEY. 

"  Do  you  believe  in  the  Keeley  treatment  for  inebriety, 
General?"  I  asked. 

"  Most  assuredly  I  do.  I  have  seen  instances  which  have 
thoroughly  convinced  me  of  its  efficaciousness."  (Here  he  pro- 
ceeded to  relate  the  condition  of  several  men  who  were  well 
known,  not  alone  to  him,  but  who  were  prominent  characters, 
and  prominent  drunkards,  too,  in  Portland  and  other  places,  but 
who  had  been  surely  saved  from  a  miserable  existence  by  the 
Keeley  cure). 

HE  TALKS  OF  THE  KEELEY  CURE. 

"  Have  you  ever  mentioned  the  Keeley  cure  in  your  public 
addresses? " 

"  Yes,  indeed,  I  have.  I  have  felt  impelled  by  what  I  have 
seen  to  speak  in  favor  of  Dr.  Keeley  and  his  remedies  whenever 
I  had  the  opportunity,  either  in  public  or  private.  I  am  not  at 
all  influenced  against  the  treatment  by  reading  of  the  antagonism 
of  some  medical  men.  Medical  men  are  banded  together  to 
support  each  other.  They  establish  certain  rules  for  their  pro- 
fessional behavior,  and  call  it  a  "  Code  of  Ethics,"  but,  in  reality, 
it  is  a  sort  of  "  Trades  Union,"  the  practical  object  being  to  keep 
up  prices  and  keep  out  innovations  which  may  in  any  way  effect 
their  pockets  or  prestige.  This  same  medical  fraternity,  in  days 
gone  by,  discarded  the  theories  of  Jenner  and  other  great  dis- 
coverers. Dr.  Keeley  is  passing  through  a  similar  experience. 
He  is  sure  to  triumph,  however,  in  the  end.  Truth  is  on  his 
side.  The  clouds  of  ignorance,  doubt,  envy,  hatred  and  malice 
will  soon  be  dispelled  by  the  touch  of  science." 

The  interview  with  the  distinguished  leader  of  the  Prohibition 
Party  is  reported  in  full  in  Keeley 's  Current  Literature,  October, 
1892.     Copies  may  be  had  upon   application  to  the  Keeley  Inst 
tute,  Carson  City,  Nev. 

Casting  Out  the  Devil. 

John    V.  Farwell    Explains    in    What  the  World    is  Indebted    to    Dr.  K.eley. 

John  V.  Farwell,  the  great  Chicago  dry  goods  merchant  was  an 
interested    spectator    at   the    convention  of  the   Keeley  Leagu. 
throughout,  and  is  a  man  of  broad  ideas  and  believes  in  practical 


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things.  We  make  the  following  brief  extracts  from  his  eminently 
practical  speech  . 

"  It  must  be  very  interesting  to  you  to  look  into  each  other's 
face,  and  have  these  recollections  and  realize  that  to-night  you  are 
not  slaves,  but  free  men  ;  free  by  the  grace  of  God  through  His 
providence  in  giving  you  Dr.  Keeley  and  his  wonderful  cure. 
(Great  applause.) 

"  I  remember  several  years  ago  seeing  in  the  newspapers  some- 
thing about  the  Keeley  Cure,  in  favor  and  against,  and  as  I  re- 
member how  'chincona'  was  introduced  to  the  public  through 
the  newspapers  a  few  years  previously,  I  said  to  myself,  *  Oh, 
well,  this  is  another  humbug — a  fellow  blowing  his  own  horn  for 
profit  and  pay.'  Soon  after  this  I  went  to  London  and  met  Dr. 
Keeley  for  the  first  time,  and  I  found  that  the  newspapers  there 
and  the  Knights  of  Medicine  were  opposed  to  Dr.  Keeley.  And 
I  said  to  myself,  I  guess  if  he  is  worthy  of  the  notice  of  the  med- 
ical journals  and  of  the  great  medical  men  of  London,  if  they 
oppose  him,  he  is  worthy  of  somebody's  notice  and  I  think  I  will 
make  some  inquiries  and  see  whether  he  is  a  humbugger  or  not. 
And  so  my  inquiries  were  instituted  in  London,  and  on  returning 
to  Chicago,  some  years  ago,  because  it  is  some  years  ago  that  this 
occurred,  I  made  some  inquiry.  But,  as  I  said  before,  I  was  pre- 
judiced against  it,  coming  to  me  as  it  did  through  the  newspapers. 

"  But  I  see  in  your  faces  to-night  a  different  story.  I  have 
found  in  all  the  inquiries  I  have  made  in  London  and  here  and 
New  York  that  all  my  impressions  have  been  wiped  out.  (Ap- 
plause.) 

"  Yes,  friends  and  fellow  citizens,  another  name  has  been  added 
to  the  list  of  public  benefactors,  and  that  name  is  Dr.  Leslie  E 
Keeley.  (Great  applause.)  In  due  time  he  will  be  cannonized 
for  having  cast  out  the  largest  devil  that  ever  afflicted  Christen- 
dom. (Applause  and  cheers.)  I  am  glad  the  day  has  come  when 
men  like  Francis  Murphy  preached  the  doctrine  of  leaving  out 
hard  names  after  a  man  had  got  the  appetite  fixed  on  him,  and 
treat  him  kindly,  that  it  has  come  to  be  understood  as  a  disease, 
and  there  is  no  other  name  for  the  big  devil." — Current  Keeley 
Literature,  October,  1892. 


Francis  Murphy  and  Dr.  Keeley. 

"I  Prayed  For  This  Discovery,"  Said  Francis  Mnrphy. 

The  Keeley  League  Meets  at  Pittsburg— Ras  Wilson  and  Francis  Murphy— The  Grand 
Opera  House  Crowded— A  Grand  Reception— Would  Advocate  the  Keeley  Cure. 
They  Are  Crying  "Crucify"  Him— The  Grace  of  God  and  Science  of  Keeley. 
"Here  Is  a  Keeley  Man"— One  of  the  Brightest  Omens— A  Word  From  John  J. 
Flinn— The  Grandest  Temperance  Oration— From  Ras  Wilson— Pledges  of 
Support — A  Keeley  Day — Hospitable  Major  Moore. 

The  meeting  of  the  Executive  Board  of  the  Keeley  League,  in 
Pittsburg,  has  been  one  of  the  greatest  events  in  the  history  of  the 
movement.  It  so  happened  that  Francis  Murphy,  who  had  been 
absent  from  Pittsburg  for  two  years,  returned  to  that  city  last 
week.  It  was  in  Pittsburg,  sixteen  years  ago,  that  Francis  Murphy 
made  his  first  appearance  as  a  temperance  lecturer.  It  was  in 
Pittsburg  that  he  won  his  spurs  as  a  great  temperance  evangelist. 
He  was  discovered  to  be  a  sincere  and  able  advocate  of  temper- 
ance by  Ras  Wilson,  of  the  Commercial  Gazette,  whose  name  is 
dear  to  every  Keeleyite  on  this  continent.  Ras  Wilson  reported 
the  first  meeting  presided  over  by  Francis  Murphy,  and  gave  him 
the  first  favorable  report  he  had  ever  received  from  a  newspaper. 
Ras  Wilson  believed  in  him  from  the  start,  and  stayed  with  him 
from  that  time  on.  He  saw  the  name  and  fame  of  Murphy  grow 
until  the  Murphy  movement  became  a  household  word  throughout 
America  and  in  many  of  the  countries  of  Europe.  Murphy, 
through  all  the  years  that  have  followed,  has  grown  upon  the 
people  of  Pittsburg  until  he  has  become,  in  the  true  sense,  a 
favorite  son  of  that  busy  and  prosperous  center  of  industry. 
Upon  his  return,  after  an  absence  of  two  years,  the  people  of 
Pittsburg  decided  to  give  him  an  ovation  at  the  Grand  Opera 
House,  one  of  the  largest  theaters  in  the  country.  The  Murphy 
meeting  was  announced  for  Sunday  evening,  October  16.  The 
meeting  of  the  Executive  Board  of  the  Keeley  League  was 
announced  for  Monday  evening,  October  17.  One  of  the  first 
questions  put  to  Mr.  Murphy  by  Ras  Wilson,  after  the  former's 
return  to  Pittsburg,  was,  "What  do  you  think  of  Keeley?" 
Murphy's  reply  was,  "Keeley,  God  bless  him;  I  am  with  him." 
He  then  informed  Mr.  Wilson  that  he  would  put  himself  on  record 
at  the  Opera  House  meeting  as  a  friend  of  the  Keeley  cause. 
This  information  reached  Mr.  John  M.  Kelly,  who  immediately 
sent  telegrams  to  members  of  the  Executive  Committee,  announcing 
the  fact  that  Murphy  would  say  a  word  for  Keeley  on  Sunday 
evening,  and  asked  them  to  be  present.  Mr.  John  J.  Flinn, 
Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee,  on  receipt  of  the  telegram 


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immediately  set  out  for  Pittsburg.  So  did  Captain  Mattox,  of 
Cleveland.  Both  of  these  gentlemen  arrived  in  time  to  attend  the 
meeting.  Other  members  of  the  committee,  with  the  exception 
of  Hon.  Walter  Young,  of  Missouri,  arrived  on  Monday  evening, 
too  late  for  the  Murphy  meeting. 

THE   GRAND   OPERA    HOUSE    CROWDED. 

Before  seven  o'clock  on  Sunday  night  the  immense  auditorium 
of  the  Grand  Opera  House  was  crowded  to  overflowing,  and  the 
daily  papers  of  Pittsburg  agreed  in  estimating  that  fully  2,000 
persons  were  unable  to  obtain  admission.  There  were  between 
3,000  and  3,500  persons  in  the  opera  house  when  the  meeting 
opened. 

The  opening  address  was  made  by  Capt.  Robert  Hunter,  one 
of  Murphy's  pledge-signers,  and  now  a  thorough  friend  of  the 
Keeley  movement.  He  made  an  eloquent  speech,  reviewing  the 
career  of  Francis  Murphy  from  the  time  he  had  entered  upon  the 
temperance  work,  at  Pittsburg,  an  almost  unknown  man.  The 
audience  was  enthusiastic ,  and  at  every  reference  to  Murphy 
broke  out  in  the  heartiest  applause. 

A  GRAND    RECEPTION. 

When  Francis  Murphy  stepped  forward,  the  man  was  so  over- 
come by  the  magnificent  reception  he  received,  that  it  was  some 
minutes  before  he  could  command  his  voice.  He  stood  before 
the  audience  with  tearful  eyes  and  trembling  lips,  incapable  of 
giving  utterance  to  a  syllable.  The  audience  remained  in  perfect 
silence.  At  length  the  white-haired  apostle  of  temperance  got 
control  of  his  feelings,  and  for  a  few  minutes  there  poured  out 
from  his  heart  words  of  love  and  gratitude  for  the  kindness  which 
has  always  been  shown  him  by  the  people  of  Pittsburg.  Before 
he  could  go  on  with  his  talk  some  gospel  hymns  were  sung,  and 
after  his  peculiar  manner  of  conducting  a  meeting,  he  called  from 
the  stage  a  number  of  those  who  had  taken  the  Murphy  pledge, 
and  several  gentlemen  bore  testimony  to  the  fact  that  they  had 
been  induced  to  lead  sober  lives  by  Francis  Murphy.  Many  of 
these  have  gone  on  from  five  to  fifteen  years.  All  of  them, 
without  an  exception  admitted,  that  it  was  still  a  fight — that  the 
battle  was  not  yet  won. 

WOULD    ADVOCATE   THE    KEELEY    CURE. 

Francis  Murphy  then  stepped  forward  and  for  the  first  time 
mentioned  the  name  of  Keeley.  The  name  was  received  with 
applause  and  cheering.  The  orator  was  unable  to  go  on  for 
several  minutes.  He  then,  in  unmistakable  terms,  proclaimed  to 


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the  audience  that  he  was  a  believer  in  the  great  physician  at 
Dwight,  and  that  henceforth,  wherever  he  might  be,  he  would 
advocate  the  Keeley  cure  as  the  most  practicable  and  the  surest 
means  known  by  men  for  the  reformation  of  the  drunkard.  This 
announcement  was  also  followed  by  an  outburst  of  applause  last- 
ing some  moments.  Francis  Murphy  then  went  briefly  over  the 
history  of  the  Keeley  movement. 

THEY   ARE   CRYING    "CRUCIFY"    HIM. 

He  spoke  of  the  sneers  which  came  from  the  medical  profes- 
sion; of  the  obstacles  Dr.  Keeley  had  to  contend  with  from  relig- 
ious people;  of  the  difficulties  which  beset  every  man  who  gave 
birth  to  a  new  idea.  "Jesus  Christ,"  said  Mr.  Murphy,  "was 
sneered  at  as  Keeley  was  sneered  at.  He  found  it  necessary  in 
order  to  heal  men  to  give  them  medicine,  and  his  name  has  come 
down  to  us  as  a  physician — the  greatest  physician  that  ever 
lived.  The  Scribes  and  Pharisees  denounced  him  as  a  fraud,  as 
they  are  denouncing  the  great  doctor  at  Dwight,  to-day.  It  has 
always  been  so  in  this  world.  It  is  all  a  man's  life  is  worth,  all  a 
man's  character  is  worth,  to  be  the  father  of  a  new  discovery  in 
science,  or  a  new  idea  in  religion.  They  are  crying  'crucify'  him 
when  we  speak  of  Keeley  to-day,  as  they  cried  crucify  Him, 
when  Christ's  name  was  heard  eighteen  centuries  ago."  4<Oh" 
said  Murphy,  "how  many  times  have  I  prayed  for  this  discovery; 
how  many  thousands  might  I  have  saved  had  this  man's  medi- 
cine been  at  my  hand;  how  many  thousands  of  homes  might  I 
have  made  happy,  had  I  known  how  to  cure  as  Keeley  cures." 

GRACE  OF  GOD  AND  SCIENCE  OF  KEELEY. 
It  will  be  impossible  to  describe  the  sensation  created  through- 
out the  vast  audience  by  these  words.  Every  mention  of  Keeley's 
name  was  followed  with  applause,  and  when  Francis  Murphy 
declared  finally  that  henceforth,  having  on  his  side  the  grace  of 
God  and  the  science  of  Dr.  Leslie  E.  Keeley,  the  temperance 
movement  would  assume  a  magnitude  such  as  it  has  never 
reached  before,  he  was  compelled  to  stop  because  of  the  con- 
tinued applause  which  greeted  the  declaration. 

He  is  no  Doubter. 

A  New  York  Medical  Man  Who  Sees  the  Facts  as  They  Are. 

"Dr.  Ira  C.  Brown,  the  well-^nown  West  Side  physician,  is  a 
enthusiast  on  the  Keeley  cure.  He  has  used  it  in  his  practic 
and  speaking  of  the  manner  in  which  it  is  spreading  all  over  1 


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country,  remarked  to  me  the  other  day,  that  there  were  200,000 
people  in  the  United  States  who  have  been  cured  of  all  taste  of 
liquor  by  the  treatment.  "I  highly  approve  of  the  suggestion 
made  by  the  Times,  that  every  man  or  woman  sentenced  to  prison 
for  drunkenness,  should  be  compelled  to  take  the  bi-chloride  of 
gold.  It  does  not  depend  on  the  will  power  of  the  patient,  and 
will  cure  the  "sot"  of  his  taste  for  rum  whether  he  likes  it  or  not. 
Of  the  100,000  cases  successfully  treated,  70,000  are  from  the 
parent  institute  at  Dwight,  and  the  remaining  30,000  from  branch 
institutes  throughout  the  country.  The  success  obtained  officially 
has  been  recognized  by  the  introduction  of  the  bi-chloride  of  gold 
cure  into  the  soldiers'  home,  atQuincy,  Illinois,  and  a  number  of 
other  soldiers'  homes  throughout  the  United  States." — Buffalo 
N.  F,,  Times. 

Governor  Francis'  Testimony. 


Governor  Francis,  of  Missouri,  wrote  the  following  letter  which 
explains  itself: 

CITY  OF  JEFFERSON,  July  16. 

Mr.  Fntz  Nisbet,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  St.  Louis  Bi-Chloride   of  Gold  Club,   St. 
Louis,  Mo. 

DEAR  SIR:  "Your  circular  letter,  dated  July  5,  was  received  on  the  I4th 
inst.  I  consider  the  objects  of  your  organization  commendable  and  worthy 
of  encouragement  and  material  aid.  Within  the  circle  of  my  acquaintance 
are  several  men,  and  at  least  one  woman,  who  through  the  aid  of  bi-chloride 
of  gold  cure,  have  been  enabled  to  conquer  appetities  which  seemed  incur- 
able. They  are  now  useful  members  of  society,  and  if  others  can  be  reclaimed 
through  the  instrumentality  of  your  club,  as  I  have  no  doubt  will  be  done,  a 
great  blessing  will  be  conferred  upon  those  who  enjoy  the  benefit  of  your  aid. 
We  are  our  brother's  keeper.  I  enclose  my  check  for  $10  and  regret  that  the 
frequent  calls  made  upon  me  will  not  admit  of  my  contributing  a  larger  sum." 

Respectfully, 

DAVID  R.  FRANCIS. 


Medicine  and  Medical  attendance  for  three  weeks, 
One  Hundred  and  Five  Dollars,  payable  in  advance. 
Twenty-five  Dollars  per  week  will  be  charged  thereafter 
for  persons  requiring  more  than  a  three  weeks'  course. 


FORGET  that  the  KEELEY  TREATMENT  has  stood 
the  test  of  more  than  thirteen  years.  It  has  been  given  to 
more  than  two  hunored  th-qfasand  persons,  and  of  this  num- 
ber not  more  than  five  pec  cent,  have  relapsed  into  their  former 
habits.  The  treatment  is  harmless  and  no  person  was  ever  injured 
mentally  or  physically  by  it,  and  the  patient  is  entirely  free  fro m 
all  physical  restraint  while  at  the  Keeley  Institute.  Consider  these 
facts  if  you  are  in  need  of  treatment. 

Yours  truly, 

THE  KEELEY   INSTITUTE  OF  NEVADA. 
CAKISOX  crrv.        ^ 


